extermination
nounEtymology Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.
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The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
- extermination of error or vice
- extermination of weeds from a field
2 more examples
- Depending on the case, extermination of a group of people may constitute genocide or crime against humanity.
- Caley locomotive types, especially such numerous things as McIntosh goods and tank engines, have defied extermination over a good many years now.1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
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Elimination.
- Synonyms
- excision
- Derived terms
- extermination camp, exterminationism, exterminationist, nonextermination