extermine

See also: exterminé

English

Etymology

From French exterminer, from Latin extermino.

Verb

extermine (third-person singular simple present extermines, present participle extermining, simple past and past participle extermined)

1. (transitive, obsolete or nonstandard) To exterminate (someone or something); to destroy.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     VVherever ſorrovv is, relief vvould be. / If you do ſorrovv at my grief in love, / By giving love your ſorrovv and my grief / VVere both extermined.

   • 1874, Charles Kingsley, “Superstition. A Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution, London.”, in Health and Education, London: W. Isbister & Co. […], →OCLC, page 234:

     Without the instinct of self-preservation, which causes the sea-anemone to contract its tentacles, or the fish to dash into its hover, species would be extermined wholesale by involuntary suicide.

References

• “extermine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.stɛʁ.min/

Verb

extermine

1. inflection of exterminer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ex‧ter‧mi‧ne

Verb

extermine

1. inflection of exterminar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡsteɾˈmine/ [eɣ̞s.t̪eɾˈmi.ne]
• Rhymes: -ine
• Syllabification: ex‧ter‧mi‧ne

Verb

extermine

1. inflection of exterminar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative