extermination

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extermination

Rhymes with -eɪʃən

Where it comes from

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

noun exterminations

countable, uncountable The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication. extermination of error or vice
Similar: excision
countable, uncountable Elimination.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: extinction, liquidation, annihilation, killing, eradication, eradicate, elimination, destruction, culling, death, genocide, oblivion, cleansing, holocaust, eradicating, obliteration

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noun the act of exterminating

Español	exterminio, exterminación
Português	exterminação, extermínio
Français	extermination
Deutsch	Ausrottung, Vernichtung
Italiano	sterminazione, sterminio
Română	exterminare, exterminațiune
Русский	уничтоже́ние uničtožénije, истребле́ние istreblénije
العربية	إبادة ʔibāda
עברית	השמדה

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"extermination." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/extermination. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Chicago

"extermination." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/extermination.

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@misc{extermination_2026,
  title = {extermination},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/extermination},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}