exterminate
verb (used with object)
to get rid of by destroying; destroy totally; extirpate.
has exterminated
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present perfectof exterminate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Weary of waiting, I pay no more attention to the carcass; I leave the future to decide whether the cold has exterminated the fly's family or not.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
But most of it would be fitly discussed only among physicians and biologists: here I will say only this—Science has exterminated, at least among civilised nations, witch-manias.
From Health and Education by Charles Kingsley
The introduction of the shot-gun has exterminated them.
From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach
This stroke has exterminated my remnant of hope.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
What, then, has exterminated so many species and whole genera?
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
