Hypertext Webster Gateway: "extermination"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
extermination
n 1: complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the
extinction of the dinosaurs" [syn: {extinction}]
2: the act of exterminating [syn: {liquidation}]
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