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vermination

/vɜː(ɹ)mɪˈneɪʃən/

vermination noun: the generation or breeding of vermin.

Noun

vermination (usually uncountable, plural verminations)

  1. (archaic, usually) The generation or breeding of vermin.
    • As Seigneur Redi was one of the first that made it his business to discard anomalous generation, so he tried more experiments relating to the vermination of ſerpents1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC
  2. (archaic, usually) A griping pain of the bowels.

vermination meaning in Urdu

vermination in Urdu

گھن

Forms of vermination

pluralverminations

Origin of vermination

Latin verminatio the worms, a disease of animals, a crawling, itching pain.

Questions about vermination

What does vermination mean?
Vermination means the generation or breeding of vermin.
What is vermination in Urdu?
Vermination in Urdu is گھن. See Vermination meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is vermination?
Vermination is a noun.
How do you pronounce vermination?
Vermination is pronounced /vɜː(ɹ)mɪˈneɪʃən/.
What is the plural of vermination?
The plural of vermination is verminations.

Words near vermination in the dictionary

  1. vermin
  2. verminate
  3. verminated
  4. verminates
  5. verminating
  6. vermination
  7. verminations
  8. vermine
  9. vermined
  10. verminer
  11. verminers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vermination (page history and authors); vermination (Urdu 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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