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Meaning of word exterminate from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

Meaning : Kill en masse. Kill on a large scale. Kill many.

Example : Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe.

Synonyms : kill off

Meaning : Destroy completely, as if down to the roots.

Example : The vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted.
Root out corruption.

Synonyms : eradicate, extirpate, root out, uproot