extermination
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7.4
- noun
- /ɪkˌstɜːrmɪˈneɪʃən/
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exterminio
- Many of those who were targeted for extermination by the Nazi euthanasia program, for example, were not likely to procreate.
- mass extermination
- extermination policy
- extermination attempts
It's about one day in the in the extermination camp of Auschwitz.
- It's about one day in the in the extermination camp of Auschwitz.
- How can you have a plan like that and not call it mass extermination?
- If Benny Morris were correct, then why didn't Hitler begin the extermination right when he came into power?
- So I can certainly grant that phase extinction would be better than painful extermination.
- Well, I think the, the only big surprise is the extermination policy, genocide by the German people.
- So we go on, and we see the nice were not the the first people chewed up, and it's maw just the latest and cruelest extermination of many.
- But ultimately it was just a big collective guilt and extermination policy against the Armenians and the Assyrians and the my grandparents.
Examples
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The Karen people, comprised mostly of poor Christian farmers, have been singled out for extermination.
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I know this is far from ideal, but we face extermination.
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We're talking about deliberate extermination over many years.
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The purpose of which was the extermination of human beings.
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"I lost my entire family, down to the last cousin, in the extermination camps."
Fiction book (1990) -
The Holocaust was a program of biological extermination based on racist eugenic theories.
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Now we are overflying Namibia, where the German commander Von Trotha ordered the extermination of the Herero people.
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During World War II, the extermination of millions of people occurred in concentration camps.
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The pest control company specializes in the extermination of termites and other wood-destroying insects.
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They organized a campaign for the extermination of invasive species threatening the local ecosystem.
Synonyms
150
4.4
The dying out of a species so it no longer exists
77
3.5
The act of removing something you do not need
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8.1
Complete destruction so nothing is left
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6.8
Complete removal of something unwanted
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7.9
Complete destruction that leaves nothing behind
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6.3
Complete destruction that leaves nothing left
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8.8
Killing people for political or criminal reasons
Complete removal of something, often by pulling it out by the roots
The removal of unwanted insects and animals from buildings or stored food
The act of destroying something so it is completely ruined
Antonyms
Compounds
How Complete
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8.1
- NSFW
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7.4
77
3.5
- Specialized
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7.0
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3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
extermination = exterminate (transparent) = exterminate + ion
Adding '-ion' to the verb 'exterminate' creates a standard noun meaning the act or result of exterminating.
Etymology
Extermination comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and terminare 'to end', and it shares the same root as the English word terminate. So, to exterminate something is to 'put an end' to it completely, which is why extermination means total destruction or removal.