Their job is to exterminate rats and mice.
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Exterminate
//ɪkˈstɝ.mɪ.neɪt//
Synonyms for "exterminate" (118 found)
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52 translations across 25 languages.
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡырыу verb (to kill all of a population)
Bulgarian
2 entries- изтребвам verb (to kill all of a population)
- унищожавам verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
Catalan
2 entries- exterminar verb (to kill all of a population)
- exterminar verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- لەناوبردن verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 滅絕 /灭绝 verb (to kill all of a population)
Czech
2 entries- vyhladit verb (to kill all of a population)
- vyhubit verb (to kill all of a population)
Danish
1 entries- udrydde verb (to kill all of a population)
Dutch
4 entries- afmaken verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
- beëindigen verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
- uitroeien verb (to kill all of a population)
- uitroeien verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
French
1 entries- exterminer verb (to kill all of a population)
German
1 entries- ausrotten verb (to kill all of a population)
Greek
3 entries- εξολοθρεύω verb (to kill all of a population)
- εξοντώνω verb (to kill all of a population)
- επιτυγχάνω verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
Hebrew
1 entries- חיסל verb (to kill all of a population)
Italian
1 entries- sterminare verb (to kill all of a population)
Ladino
2 entries- eksterminar verb (to kill all of a population)
- eksterminar verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
Māori
4 entries- haepapa verb (to kill all of a population)
- hoepapa verb (to kill all of a population)
- tipihauraro verb (to kill all of a population)
- whakamōtī verb (to kill all of a population)
Persian
1 entries- ریشهکن کردن verb (to kill all of a population)
Portuguese
4 entries- aniquilar verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
- erradicar verb (to kill all of a population)
- exterminar verb (to kill all of a population)
- exterminar verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
Romanian
1 entries- exterminare verb (to kill all of a population)
Russian
4 entries- истреби́ть verb (to kill all of a population)
- истребля́ть verb (to kill all of a population)
- уничто́жить verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
- уничтожа́ть verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- istrebiti verb (to kill all of a population)
- истребити verb (to kill all of a population)
Spanish
3 entries- despalillar verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
- exterminar verb (to kill all of a population)
- exterminar verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
Thai
4 entries- กวาดล้าง verb (to kill all of a population)
- ฆ่าล้าง verb (to kill all of a population)
- ทำลายล้าง verb (to kill all of a population)
- ล้างบาง verb (to kill all of a population)
Turkish
1 entries- kökünü kurutmak verb (to kill all of a population)
Ukrainian
2 entries- виво́дити verb (to kill all of a population)
- вини́щувати verb (to kill all of a population)
Yiddish
2 entries- פֿאַרטיליקן verb (to kill all of a population)
- פֿאַרטיליקן verb (to bring a definite end to, finish completely)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Insecticides are agricultural chemicals that exterminate insects harmful to plants.
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There's a huge spider in the room! Quick, exterminate it!
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Globalization has gone mad: why transport Spanish cucumbers to exterminate the Northern Germans when half of them live in Mallorca? We need to rationalize all of that and adopt a more solid method of bacterial decontamination.
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