extermination
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
extermination (countable and uncountable, plural exterminations)
- 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.
- 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
- Caley locomotive types, especially such numerous things as McIntosh goods and tank engines, have defied extermination over a good many years now.
- Elimination.
Synonyms[edit]
- (total destruction): excision
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the act of exterminating
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiōnem. By surface analysis, exterminer + -ation.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
extermination f (plural exterminations)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “extermination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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