Definition of “exterminate”

Every citizen had to exterminate a weekly quota of birds, fleas, rats or mosquitoes.

The British commander, as anxious to recover the gold as to exterminate the pirates, gave chase.

The Clinicians had tried harnessing magical power to edify and heal; Razoxane had started using it to exterminate evildoers for God.

The Nazis ' infamous death camp, near Cracow, Poland, was the centre of Adolf Hitler's bid to exterminate the Jewish race.

The authorities also intend to exterminate rats, flies, mosquitoes, and bedbugs.

The government is considering a report that recommends the creation of a new agency with powers to exterminate invasive species.

To be seen to exterminate the Tasmanian medical student, willfully, would be political suicide.

We ought to wipe him out once and for all - expunge him, eliminate him, exterminate him- ' `Is this a sermon?

``Genocide is the attempt to eliminate, limit or exterminate a religious ethnic national or racial group,' he said.