Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Exterminate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.]
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.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
exterminate
v 1: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler
wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and
homosexuals of Europe" [syn: {kill off}]
2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges
of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: {uproot},
{eradicate}, {extirpate}]
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