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Antonyms for exterminate

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ik-stur-muh-neyt
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈstɜr məˌneɪt


Definition of exterminate

Origin :
  • 1540s, "drive away," from Latin exterminatus, past participle of exterminare "drive out, expel, drive beyond boundaries," also, in Late Latin "destroy," from phrase ex termine "beyond the boundary," from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + termine, ablative of termen "boundary, limit, end" (see terminus).
  • Meaning "destroy utterly" is from 1640s in English, a sense found in equivalent words in French and in the Vulgate; earlier in this sense was extermine (mid-15c.). Related: Exterminated; exterminating.
  • verb kill
Example sentences :
  • The best of this war is, it enables me to exterminate so many bad artists.
  • Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 » by Various
  • It was then determined to exterminate the pirates at any cost.
  • Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler
  • They were coming with many more boats to exterminate every living thing.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • Would you exterminate him because in your blindness you only note the debit side?
  • Extract from : « "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" » by Douglas English
  • Shepherds have entered into a conspiracy to exterminate the wolves.
  • Extract from : « The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon » by Newell Dwight Hillis
  • We will not attack you as Voltaire did; we will not exterminate you; we shall explain you.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley
  • But we must crush your armies, and exterminate your Government.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 » by Various
  • The pitiless Spaniard replied that he was under orders to exterminate all of that faith.
  • Extract from : « The Land We Live In » by Henry Mann
  • Some of them aim to protect and secure, while others aim to repress or exterminate.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • He has his points, yet he's a pest, indeed; I would we could exterminate the breed.
  • Extract from : « A Phenomenal Fauna » by Carolyn Wells

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