exterminated
- past participle of exterminate.
- past tense form of exterminate.
Example Sentences
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Within about 50 years, the crocodiles had been completely exterminated.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
Along with the passenger pigeon we exterminated the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the Labrador duck and the ivory-billed woodpecker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Last year, some argued that the city should officially designate lovebugs as pests — a move that would allow them to be chemically exterminated — citing the threats they posed to mental health.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
Live mosquitoes will be exterminated using ultraviolet light.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
Only after the first Polynesian settlers had exterminated moas and decimated seal populations on New Zealand, and exterminated or decimated seabirds and land birds on other Polynesian islands, did they intensify their food production.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
