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1. Kill en massé; kill on a large scale; kill many
   "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe";
   - kill off
    
2. Remove, destroy or wipe out completely
   - uproot, eradicate, extirpate [formal], root out

Derived forms: exterminated, exterminating, exterminates

See also: kill

Type of: destroy, destruct, kill, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]

Encyclopedia: Exterminate