Definition of exterminate Exterminate

/ɪkstɚˈmʌnejˌt/ - [ikstermuneyt] - ex•ter•mi•nate

We found 11 definitions of exterminate from 6 different sources.

What does exterminate mean?

Verb exterminates, exterminating, exterminated
exterminate - kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
		kill off
		kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
exterminate - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
		uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out
		destruct, destroy destroy (one's own missile or rocket); "The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons"

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exterminate (Verb)
To kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests.

exterminate (v. t.)
To drive out or away; to expel.
exterminate (v. t.)
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.
exterminate (v. t.)
To eliminate, as unknown quantities.

exterminate
eks-tėr′mi-nāt, v.t. to destroy utterly: to put an end to: to root out.—adj. Exter′minable, that can be exterminated: used in the sense of 'illimitable' by Shelley.—n. Exterminā′tion, complete destruction or extirpation.—adjs. Exter′minātive, Exter′minātory, serving or tending to exterminate.—n. Exter′minātor.—v.t. Exter′mine (Shak.), to exterminate. [L. extermināre, -ātum—ex, out of, terminus.]