Usually means: Eliminate or destroy completely and thoroughly.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. exterminate: Merriam-Webster
  2. exterminate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exterminate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exterminate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exterminate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exterminate, exterminate: Wordnik
  7. exterminate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exterminate: Wiktionary
  9. exterminate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exterminate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exterminate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exterminate, exterminate: Dictionary.com
  13. exterminate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. exterminate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Exterminate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. exterminate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. exterminate: Rhymezone
  18. Exterminate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. exterminate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. exterminate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. exterminate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. exterminate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. exterminate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exterminate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exterminate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. exterminate: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Exterminate: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
▸ verb:  (figuratively, transitive) To bring a definite end to; to finish completely.

Similar:
kill off, eradicate, extirpate, uproot, extermine, eliminate, stamp out, shoot out, root out, expunge, more...

Opposite:
conserve, preserve, protect

Types:
kill, annihilate, destroy, eradicate, eliminate, more...

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    black,     red,     dark gray,     blood red,     charcoal, more...


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Similar:
kill off, eradicate, extirpate, uproot, extermine, eliminate, stamp out, shoot out, root out, expunge, more...

Opposite:
conserve, preserve, protect

Types:
kill, annihilate, destroy, eradicate, eliminate, more...

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark gray,     blood red,     charcoal, more...



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