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exterminate
Synonyms and Antonyms of exterminate
- hope that the fumigant exterminates the whole colony of cockroaches, for any survivors may be resistant to any poison
decimate, demolish, destroy, devastate, ravage
dismantle, flatten, mow (down), raze, tear down
blast, blow up, dash, dynamite, smash
atomize, consume, devour, dissolve, fragment, powder, pulverize, shatter, splinter
doom, finish, kill, kill off, terminate, zap
cut, discard, ditch, eject, excise, expel, jettison, oust, throw out
Synonym Discussion of exterminate
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- exterminate cockroaches
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- many species have been extirpated from the area
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- a campaign to eradicate illiteracy
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- the war uprooted thousands
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