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Antonyms for exterminator


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ik-stur-muh-ney-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈstɜr məˌneɪ tər



Definition of exterminator

Origin :
  • c.1400, "an angel who expells (people from a country)," from Late Latin exterminator, from Latin exterminatus, past participle stem of exterminare (see exterminate). As a substance for ridding a place of rats, etc., by 1848. As a person whose job it is to do this, by 1938.
  • As in killer : noun murderer
  • As in destroyer : noun a destructive agent
Example sentences :
  • Cook as an exterminator of the human species seemed too glittering a novelty.
  • Extract from : « Wanted: A Cook » by Alan Dale
  • Sometimes they are enemies who must be immolated to Mars the exterminator.
  • Extract from : « A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
  • What would the Black Spider need to do to escape her exterminator?
  • Extract from : « More Hunting Wasps » by J. Henri Fabre
  • Now, apparently, he was being pressed into service as an exterminator.
  • Extract from : « Student Body » by Floyd L. Wallace
  • But neither supposition proved to be correct, for we presently picked up the “exterminator,” floating near us.
  • Extract from : « The Island Home » by Richard Archer
  • At one of these avenues would enter the exterminator of my honor and my life.
  • Extract from : « Wieland; or The Transformation » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • This condition converted every white man into a soldier, a patriot, an exterminator.
  • Extract from : « Makers and Romance of Alabama History » by B. F. Riley
  • "The Olonnais is adjudged to Montbarts the exterminator, for forty crowns," the agent said.
  • Extract from : « The Buccaneer Chief » by Gustave Aimard
  • The destroyer of enemies,” “the reducer of the disobedient,” “the exterminator of rebels,” “he whose sword is good.
  • Extract from : « Tradition » by John Francis Arundell
  • When the master takes us to kill the snails in the box borders, I do not always scrupulously fulfil my office as an exterminator.
  • Extract from : « The Life of the Fly » by J. Henri Fabre

Synonyms for exterminator

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