exterminate, kill off
(verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; “Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe”
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
(verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots; “the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted”; “root out corruption”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
exterminate (third-person singular simple present exterminates, present participle exterminating, simple past and past participle exterminated)
(transitive) To kill all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
(figuratively, transitive) To bring a definite end to; finish completely.
• (to kill all): annihilate, eradicate, extermine, uproot
• (to bring an end to): stamp out
• See also destroy
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*ter"mi*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exterminated(); p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating().] Etym: [L. exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.]
1. To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.
2. 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.
3. (Math.)
Definition: To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
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