The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exterminate \Ex*ter"mi*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exterminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating.] [L. exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.]
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To drive out or away; to expel.
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion.
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To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
To explode and exterminate rank atheism.
--Bentley. (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of exterminate English)
Usage examples of "exterminating".
What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine?
Nasreen Chamchawala fell, twitched, gasped, died, and when the all--clear sounded the guests emerged sheepishly to find their hostess extinct in the middle of the dining-room, stolen away by the exterminating angel, khali--pili khalaas, as Bombay--talk has it, finished off for no reason, gone for good.
I do believe you might end up exterminating yourselves in the process.
When the Deutsche find a group they do not care for, they set about exterminating it.
The latter forbade them, under pain of exterminating hostility, from attempting to proceed up the river, but offered to trade peacefully with them if they would halt where they were.
This valuable animal is now almost extinct in all these islands, owing to the exterminating system adopted by the hunters.
Barak won the fight, and while he was making the victory complete by the usual method of exterminating the remnant of the defeated host, Sisera fled away on foot, and when he was nearly exhausted by fatigue and thirst, one Jael, a woman he seems to have been acquainted with, invited him to come into her tent and rest himself.
He has not to wait long, for the exterminating machine he set up on the 22nd of Prairial, is in their hands, and it has to work as he planned it, namely, by making rapid turns and almost haphazard: the odium of a blind sweeping massacre rests with them.
The former was confiding to the latter his grief and fear, for it was the second time within a month that death had suddenly and unexpectedly entered that house which was apparently destined to destruction by some exterminating angel, as an object of God’s anger.
You say an exterminating angel appears to have devoted that house to God’s anger — well, who says your supposition is not reality?
Charged with guarding the life of your Supreme Overlord, as well as with rooting out our enemies and exterminating them.
Then not only will I have the satisfaction of outwitting you at Zonama Sekot, but I will also have the pleasure of killing you, as my first act u exterminating everyone and everything in this foul galaxy.
The Jews are a world power, but not those wretched bastards whom Himmler was busy exterminating around the clock.
Then they would switch sides and assist the Viet Minh in exterminating a French garrison.
Nguyen Giap needed only a few weeks to assemble his guerrillas and retaliate in kind by exterminating a dozen garrisons in the South.