exterminate
英 [?k'st??m?ne?t; ek-]美[?k'st?m?'net]
- vt. 消滅；根除
英英釋意
- 1. kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many;
- "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
- 2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
- "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
