Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.

    extermination of error or vice

    extermination of weeds from a field

    Ausrottung, Vernichtung

    уничтоже́ниеuničtožénije, истребле́ниеistreblénije

    the act of exterminating

  2. (countable, uncountable)Elimination.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. This is extermination.

  2. How long will we continue to believe that we were born for mutual extermination and that mutual extermination is our destiny?

  3. Gaddafi undertook a policy of cultural extermination against the Berber-speaking community of Libya.

  4. Jews and Roma were the only two groups targeted for extermination by the Nazis.

  5. Chouchane, a barking dog known for his support to Islamist terrorist groups, called for the extermination of Kabyles.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the act of exterminating:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the act of exterminating:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical

Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.

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Forms

plural: exterminations
Singularextermination
Pluralexterminations

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
total destruction:excision
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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