extermination en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
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:extermination of error or vice
extermination of weeds from a field
- (countable, uncountable) Elimination.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| exterminations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
exterminationist · nonextermination · extermination camp · exterminationism
Synonyms
excision (total destruction)
Translations (20)
lad eksterminasion (the act of exterminating) · it sterminazione (the act of exterminating) · ru уничтоже́ние (the act of exterminating) · da udrydning (the act of exterminating) · ru истребле́ние (the act of exterminating) · fr extermination (the act of exterminating) · it sterminio (the act of exterminating) · de Ausrottung (the act of exterminating) · es exterminio (the act of exterminating) · ro exterminațiune (the act of exterminating) · ro exterminare (the act of exterminating) · lad eksterminio (the act of exterminating) · pt extermínio (the act of exterminating) · he השמדה (the act of exterminating) · pt exterminação (the act of exterminating) · es exterminación (the act of exterminating) · de Vernichtung (the act of exterminating) · ar إبادة (the act of exterminating) · hy ոչնչացում (the act of exterminating) · pl eksterminacja (the act of exterminating)