v. t. | 1. | To drive out or away; to expel. |
2. | To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; | |
3. | (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. |
Verb | 1. | exterminate - kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" Synonyms: kill off |
2. | exterminate - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" |