exterminate
verb (used with object)
to get rid of by destroying; destroy totally; extirpate.
is exterminating
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present progressiveof exterminate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has driven away a larger native species; and in Australia the imported hive-bee is exterminating the small stingless native bee.
From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace
