extermine

See also: exterminé

English

Etymology

French exterminer, from Latin extermino.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To exterminate; to destroy.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 5:

     Silvius: Wherever sorrow is, relief would be.
     If you do sorrow at my grief in love,
     By giving love your sorrow and my grief
     Were both extermined.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “extermine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Verb

extermine

1. first-person singular present indicative of exterminer
2. third-person singular present indicative of exterminer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exterminer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of exterminer
5. second-person singular imperative of exterminer

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Portuguese

Verb

extermine

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Spanish

Verb

extermine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of exterminar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of exterminar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of exterminar.