English-Thai Dictionary

exterminate

VT ทำลาย สิ้น  ฆ่า จน หมดสิ้น  annihilate destroy wipe out tam-lai-sin

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXTERMINATE

v.t.[L. extermino; ex and terminus, limit. ] Literally, to drive from within the limits or borders. Hence,
1. To destroy utterly; to drive away; to extirpate; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe or a nation; to exterminate inhabitants or a race of men.
2. To eradicate; to root out; to extirpate; as, to exterminate error, heresy, infidelity or atheism; to exterminate vice.
3. To root out, as plants; to extirpate; as, to exterminate weeds.
4. In algebra, to take away; as, to exterminate surds or unknown quantities.

 

EXTERMINATED

pp. Utterly driven away or destroyed; eradicated; extirpated.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EXTERMINATE

Ex *ter "mi *nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exterminated (); p. pr. & vb. n.Exterminating ().] Etym: [L. exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term. ]

 

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

 

2. 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. (Math. )

 

Defn: To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

exterminate

ex ter mi nate |ikˈstərməˌnāt ɪkˈstərməˌneɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] destroy completely: leftist ideals had not been totally exterminated. • kill (a pest ): they use poison to exterminate moles. DERIVATIVES ex ter mi na tor |-ˌnātər |noun, ex ter mi na to ry |-nəˌtôrē |adjective ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘drive out, banish ’): from Latin exterminat- ‘driven out, banished, ’ from the verb exterminare, from ex- ‘out ’ + terminus ‘boundary. ’ The sense ‘destroy ’ (mid 16th cent. ) comes from the Latin of the Vulgate.

 

Oxford Dictionary

exterminate

exterminate |ɪkˈstəːmɪneɪt, ɛk- | ▶verb [ with obj. ] destroy completely: leftist ideals had not been totally exterminated. • kill (a pest ): they use poison to exterminate moles. DERIVATIVES exterminator noun, exterminatory |-nət (ə )ri |adjective ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘drive out ’): from Latin exterminat- ‘driven out ’, from the verb exterminare, from ex- ‘out ’ + terminus ‘boundary ’. The sense ‘destroy ’ (mid 16th cent. ) comes from the Latin of the Vulgate.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

exterminate

exterminate verb they were hired to exterminate the carpenter ants: kill, put to death, take /end the life of, dispatch; slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, eliminate, eradicate, annihilate; murder, assassinate, execute, slay; informal do away with, bump off, do in, take out, blow away, ice, rub out, waste. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See destroy . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

exterminate

exterminate verb the invaders intended simply to exterminate any natives they found: kill, put to death, do to death, do away with, put an end to, finish off, take the life of, end the life of, get rid of, dispatch; slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, mow down, shoot down, cut down, put to the sword, send to the gas chambers, ethnically cleanse, destroy, eliminate, eradicate, annihilate, extirpate; murder, assassinate, execute; informal bump off, knock off, polish off, do in, top, take out, snuff out, erase, croak, stiff, zap, blow away, blow someone's brains out, give someone the works; N. Amer. informal ice, off, rub out, waste, whack, smoke, scrag; N. Amer. euphemistic terminate with extreme prejudice; literary slay.

 

French Dictionary

exterminateur

exterminateur , trice adj. et n. m. et f. adjectif et nom masculin et féminin Qui extermine. : L ’ange exterminateur.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

exterminate

ex ter mi nate /ɪkstə́ː r mɪnèɪt, eks- /動詞 他動詞 1 〈種 (族 )病気 思想など 〉を根絶 [撲滅 ]する ; 〈害虫など 〉を (完全に )駆除する ▸ exterminate rats with poison 毒薬でネズミを撲滅する 2 〈人 〉を殺す, 皆殺しにする .ex t è r mi n á tion 名詞 U 根絶, 絶滅, 駆除 .