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exterminate

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11 lettersPronunciation /ɛkˈstəː.mɪ.neɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aeeeimnrttxStarts with EEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin exterminātus, perfect passive participle of exterminō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ex- (“thoroughly”) + terminō (“to finish, close, end”), from terminus (“limit, end”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
  • Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
  • The public school failed to exterminate truancy.

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