exterminate
ex- ‘out’ + terminus ‘boundary’
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verb with object
destroy completely:
〈種(族)･病気･思想など〉を根絶, 撲滅する, 皆殺しにする, 一掃する
e.g. after exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings.
kill (a pest):
〈害虫など〉を(完全に)駆除する
e.g. they use poison to exterminate moles.
DERIVATIVES
exterminator | ikˈstərməˌnādər | noun
exterminatory | ikˈstərmənəˌtôrē | 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 century) comes from the Latin of the Vulgate.