Meaning of extermine | Babel Free

Definitions

To exterminate (someone or something); to destroy.

nonstandard, obsolete, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“VVherever ſorrovv is, relief vvould be. / If you do ſorrovv at my grief in love, / By giving love your ſorrovv and my grief / VVere both extermined.”

“Without the instinct of self-preservation, which causes the sea-anemone to contract its tentacles, or the fish to dash into its hover, species would be extermined wholesale by involuntary suicide.”

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