exterminate

exterminate is a 11-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To drive out or away; to expel. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 22 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To drive out or away; to expel.
2. transitive verb. To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
3. transitive verb. To eliminate, as unknown quantities.
4. verb. kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many

   "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

5. verb. destroy completely, as if down to the roots "root out corruption"

   "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"

   Synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, uproot

Synonyms

eradicate, extirpate, uproot

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in exterminate:

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Common word forms

exterminated, exterminates, exterminating

Words from these letters

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