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exterminator

[ ik-stur-muh-ney-ter ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that exterminates.
  2. a person or business establishment specializing in the elimination of vermin, insects, etc., from a building, apartment, etc., especially by the controlled application of toxic chemicals.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of exterminator1

From the Late Latin word exterminātor, dating back to 1605–15. See extermine, -ator

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Example Sentences

Ditto the kind of people who let garbage pile up undisposed of (and don't or can't call an exterminator).

And a rubbing alcohol/lavender oil mix works only as a short-term defense to buy time until the exterminator comes.

An exterminator, Dill took a job in Iraq for a company contracted to do pest control on military bases.

Despite having the nickname “the exterminator,” DeLay did not try to exterminate wasteful spending when in power.

But neither supposition proved to be correct, for we presently picked up the “exterminator,” floating near us.

Sometimes they are enemies who must be immolated to Mars the exterminator.

When the master takes us to kill the snails in the box borders, I do not always scrupulously fulfil my office as an exterminator.

The latter require the services of an exterminator or some one skilled in the use of hydrocyanic acid gas.

Exterminator (The), Montbars, chief of a set of filibusters in the seventeenth century.

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