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Definitions of exterminate
  1. verb
    destroy completely, as if down to the roots
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  2. verb
    kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
    "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

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Definition that contains exterminate
  • terminator someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
  • exterminator someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
  • eradicator someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
  • catharism a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition
  • albigensianism a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition
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