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Synonyms:
abolish, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, eradicate, obliterate
These verbs mean to get rid of:voted to abolish the tax;
exterminated the cockroaches in the house;
criticism that extinguished my enthusiasm;
policies that attempt to extirpate drug abuse;
scientists working to eradicate deadly diseases;
a magnet that obliterated the data on the floppy disk.
exterminate
v 1: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" [syn: kill off] 2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate]
첫댓글 exterminate vt.(종족,질병,해충 따위를)멸종시키다.
멸종시키다, 박멸하다