Extermine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Extermine is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete or nonstandard) To exterminate (someone or something); to destroy.
Meaning
(transitive, obsolete or nonstandard) To exterminate (someone or something); to destroy.
Example Sentences
VVherever ſorrovv is, relief vvould be. / If you do ſorrovv at my grief in love, / By giving love your ſorrovv and my grief / VVere both extermined.
Without the instinct of self-preservation, which causes the sea-anemone to contract its tentacles, or the fish to dash into its hover, species would be extermined wholesale by involuntary suicide.
Word Forms
- extermines
- extermining
- extermined
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include extirp, extirpate, exscind, exterminate, extinct, eradicate.
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