• Extermination

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

    Origin

    From Middle French extermination, from Latin exterminatio

    Full definition of extermination

    Noun

    extermination

    (plural exterminations)
    1. The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
    2. Elimination.----
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