exterminate
verb (used with object)
to get rid of by destroying; destroy totally; extirpate.
self-extermination
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a word derived from
exterminate.
Example Sentences
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I had seen rakes in my day; but here something frantic, some frenzy of self-extermination, some sort of recklessness, had made itself manifest!
From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Isabel Florence Hapgood
The new Irish doctrine of self-extermination has given much satisfaction in Ministerial circles.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 by Sir Owen Seaman
