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exterminating

[ik-stur-muh-neyt] Origin

ex·ter·mi·nate

[ik-stur-muh-neyt]
verb (used with object), -nat·ed, -nat·ing.
to get rid of by destroying; destroy totally; extirpate: to exterminate an enemy; to exterminate insects.

Origin:
1535–45; < Latin exterminātus, past participle of extermināre to extermine; see -ate1

ex·ter·mi·na·ble [ik-stur-muh-nuh-buhl] , adjective
ex·ter·mi·na·tion, noun
non·ex·ter·mi·na·tion, noun
self-ex·ter·mi·na·tion, noun
un·ex·ter·mi·na·ble, adjective
EXPAND
un·ex·ter·mi·nat·ed, adjective
COLLAPSE


eradicate, abolish, annihilate, eliminate.

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Exterminating is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

exterminate
1540s, from L. exterminare "drive out, expel," also, in L.L. "destroy," from phrase ex termine "beyond the boundary," from ex- "out of" + termine, abl. of termen "boundary, limit, end." Related: Exterminated; exterminating; exterminator.
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