extermination
- a word derived from exterminate.
Example Sentences
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She is presented as Hannelore Kaufmann, a 13-year-old Berliner who purportedly died at the Auschwitz extermination camp, of which the 1945 liberation by Soviet troops is commemorated on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
Instead of calling an extermination company, my landlord would just text me, claiming the next-door neighbors were dirty.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
Theirs was a bold but unlikely mission: to parachute behind enemy lines and save European Jews from extermination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
In contrast, most units that underwent extermination were cleared of cockroaches and showed substantial reductions in both allergens and endotoxins.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2025
To escape extermination, many monks grew their hair and went into hiding in the jungle.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
