exterminate
/ɪkˈstɜːrmɪneɪt/
verb
- To destroy completely; to kill all of a group of living things, especially pests or unwanted organisms.
- Farmers used traps to exterminate the rats that were eating their crops.
- The company was hired to exterminate the cockroaches in the apartment building.
- Efforts to exterminate the mosquito population helped reduce the spread of malaria.
- To put an end to something completely; to eliminate an idea, problem, or practice.
- The new policy aims to exterminate corruption within the government.
- We need to exterminate the myth that all spiders are dangerous.
- The teacher worked hard to exterminate bullying from the classroom.
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