exterminate
verb (used with object)
to get rid of by destroying; destroy totally; extirpate.
will exterminate
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future tenseof exterminate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Smith is vegan, yet not an absolutist: he will exterminate cockroaches in his apartment in Manhattan’s Union Square, he said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
The proper cultivation of the soil, it is now clearly seen, will exterminate fevers and agues, and all the frightful consequences of malaria.
From Sermons on National Subjects by Charles Kingsley
They forget that no amount of diffusion will exterminate whatever exists; that a pint of ink diffused in a lake is still there, and the water is only the less pure.
From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz
As already pointed out, wild creatures, other than song-birds, do not care to say much, because of the danger of attracting enemies that will exterminate them.
From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by William Temple Hornaday
If this lesson will not suffice, August, alas! will exterminate the foe.
From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau
