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EXTERMINATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does exterminated mean?
• EXTERMINATED (adjective)
The adjective EXTERMINATED has 1 sense:
1. destroyed completely
Familiarity information: EXTERMINATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Destroyed completely
Synonyms:
annihilated; exterminated; wiped out
Similar:
destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
Context examples
The question to be debated was, “whether the Yahoos should be exterminated from the face of the earth?”
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The males were exterminated, Ape Town was destroyed, the females and young were driven away to live in bondage, and the long rivalry of untold centuries had reached its bloody end.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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