extermination

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French extermination, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin exterminatio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (US):

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Noun

extermination (countable and uncountable, plural exterminations)

1. The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication

   the total extermination of a people

   extermination of error or vice

   extermination of weeds from a field

2. Elimination.

Synonyms

• (total destruction): excision

Translations

the act of exterminating

• Armenian: ոչնչացում (hy) (očʻnčʻacʻum)
• Danish: udrydning c
• German: Ausrottung (de) f, Vernichtung (de) f
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• Russian: уничтоже́ние (ru) (uničtožénije), истребле́ние (ru) (istreblénije)
• Spanish: exterminio m

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

extermination f (plural exterminations)

1. extermination

Further reading

• “extermination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.