exterminate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: exterminate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for exterminate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
exterminate v kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" Synonym(s): exterminate, kill off destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" Synonym(s): uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exterminate \Exter"minate\, 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.]