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Extermination

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication. countable, uncountable

    "extermination of error or vice"

  2. 2
    the act of exterminating wordnet
  3. 3
    Elimination. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    complete annihilation wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.

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