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extermination

extermination noun: the act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.

Noun

extermination (countable and uncountable, plural exterminations)

  1. The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
    • extermination of error or vice
    • extermination of weeds from a field
    Synonyms:
    excision
  2. Elimination.

extermination meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

extermination in Tamil

பூண்டோடு அழிவு

extermination in Urdu

پامالی, اکھاڑ

extermination in Malayalam

ഉന്മൂലനം, വേരറുക്കൽ, വംശവിച്ഛേദം

extermination in Kannada

ಮೂಲೋತ್ಪಾಟನೆ, ಬೇರುಸಹಿತ
More languagesFewer languages
extermination in Arabic
إبادة ʔibāda

Examples of extermination in a sentence

  • Depending on the case, extermination of a group of people may constitute genocide or crime against humanity.
  • Caley locomotive types, especially such numerous things as McIntosh goods and tank engines, have defied extermination over a good many years now.1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:

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Synonyms of extermination

Forms of extermination

pluralexterminations

Plural of extermination: exterminations

Origin of extermination

Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.

Words formed from extermination

Phrases with extermination

Words that rhyme with extermination

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Questions about extermination

What does extermination mean?
Extermination means the act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
What is extermination in Tamil?
Extermination in Tamil is பூண்டோடு அழிவு. See Extermination meaning in Tamil.
How do you use extermination in a sentence?
Depending on the case, extermination of a group of people may constitute genocide or crime against humanity.
What part of speech is extermination?
Extermination is a noun.
What is the plural of extermination?
The plural of extermination is exterminations.

Words near extermination in the dictionary

  1. exterminatable
  2. exterminate
  3. exterminated
  4. exterminates
  5. exterminating
  6. extermination
  7. extermination camp
  8. extermination camps
  9. exterminationism
  10. exterminationist
  11. exterminationists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: extermination (page history and authors); extermination (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); extermination (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); extermination (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); extermination (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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