Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To drive out or away; to expel.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To eliminate, as unknown quantities.
- 4verb
kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
"Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
- 5verb
destroy completely, as if down to the roots "root out corruption"
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
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