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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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
He has dug and drained; he has exterminated plants and animals that were mischievous to him; he has domesticated those that serve his purpose, and transplanted them to great distances from their native places.
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Sir Francis Galton
"Therefore vaccination has exterminated smallpox," say the disciples of Jenner.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
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
What has exterminated the salmon in nearly all rivers west of Quebec? dams like this, which a fish could no more ascend than he could walk on dry land.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
