EXTERMINATE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

2.
v.

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. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

3.
v.

To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]

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