exterminate
英 [ɪk'stɜːmɪneɪt; ek-]
美[ɪk'stɝmə'net]
- vt. 消灭；根除
英英释意
- 1. kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many;
- "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
- 2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
- "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"