extermination
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.
- derived from exterminātiō
- borrowed from extermination
Definitions
The act of exterminating
The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
- extermination of error or vice
- extermination of weeds from a field
- Depending on the case, extermination of a group of people may constitute genocide or crime against humanity.
Elimination.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for extermination. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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