exterminate
verb (used with object)
to get rid of by destroying; destroy totally; extirpate.
were exterminating
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past progressiveof exterminate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But, regaining consciousness, he imagined from the desperate yells of the warriors one thing, namely, that some kind of spirits were exterminating the Samburus below.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz
