total destruction, annihilation, elimination
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Extermination Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
(n.)
Elimination.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutElimination.
extermination
\ex*ter`mi*na"tion\ (?), n. [cf. f. extermination.]
1. the act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
2. (math.) elimination. [r.]
extermination
n
1. complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs" [syn: extinction]
2. the act of exterminating [syn: liquidation]
similar words(1)
racial extermination
Noun
1. complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"
(synonym) extinction
(hypernym) annihilation, disintegration
2. the act of exterminating
(synonym) liquidation
(hypernym) destruction, devastation
Extermination Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Extermination or exterminate may refer to:
- Pest control, elimination of insects or vermin
- Genocide, the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group
- Extermination (arcade game), a 1987 arcade shooter game by Taito Corporation
- Extermination (video game), a 2001 PlayStation 2 game by Deep Space
- Extermination (album), a 1995 by Torn Apart released by Life Sentence Records
- "Exterminate!" (song), a 1992 song by Snap!
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