Synonyms of exterminated

exterminated 1 of 2

adjective

as in extirpated

Related Words

• extirpated
• obliterated
• eradicated
• mutilated
• destroyed
• disintegrated
• damaged
• wiped out
• mangled
• ruined
• demolished
• devastated
• dynamited
• wrecked
• pulverized
• fragile
• brittle
• defaced
• breakable
• frangible
• frail
• collapsed
• exploded
• split
• splintered
• cracked
• imploded
• ruinate
• blasted
• fragmented
• delicate
• broken
• smashed
• fractured
• shattered
• busted
• detonated
• slivered

Dissimilar Words

• repaired
• unbroken
• fixed
• reconstructed
• healed
• patched
• mended
• rebuilt
• unbreakable
• infrangible

exterminated

2 of 2

verb

past tense of exterminate

as in eradicated

to destroy all traces of

hope that the fumigant exterminates the whole colony of cockroaches, for any survivors may be resistant to any poison

Synonyms & Similar Words

• eradicated
• erased
• abolished
• destroyed
• obliterated
• annihilated
• liquidated
• expunged
• extirpated
• swept (away)
• wiped out
• effaced
• canceled
• demolished
• stamped (out)
• killed
• shattered
• blotted out
• cleaned (up)
• rooted (out)
• dismantled
• ravaged
• decimated
• ruined
• blacked out
• discarded
• consumed
• devastated
• snuffed (out)
• rubbed out
• flattened
• razed
• wrecked
• dissolved
• wasted
• smashed
• pulverized
• expelled
• devoured
• totaled
• excised
• finished
• fragmented
• ejected
• doomed
• dashed
• powdered
• atomized
• terminated
• splintered
• dynamited
• blasted
• tore down
• ousted
• mowed (down)
• zapped
• blew up
• jettisoned
• killed off
• cut
• threw out
• ditched

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• protected
• preserved
• saved
• created
• built
• made
• constructed
• manufactured
• formed
• conserved
• shaped
• framed
• fabricated
• restored
• forged
• fashioned
• fixed
• repaired
• rebuilt
• reconstructed
• renewed
• renovated
• patched
• mended
• reconditioned
• revamped

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of exterminated

Verb

In Vermont, federal researchers are hoping to save American elm trees by infecting young saplings with the fungal disease that has nearly exterminated the tall, once prevalent, East Coast trees. — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Suleyman gains a reluctant ally in cop Yasmine (Clara Claymans), as the rest of her SWAT team gets swiftly exterminated. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026

The only flamingo native to North America was exterminated in Florida by the early part of the twentieth century. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 July 2026

This acts as both treatment and prevention; adults are exterminated and the lifecycle is disrupted. — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 6 July 2026

To argue that the 8 million Jews of Israel have no right to exist as a polity, and must be exterminated or displaced, is, of course, genocidal in intent. — Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026

Journalists on the ground in Palestine, who have been systematically exterminated by the Israeli military, risked their lives and the lives of their families to tell these stories. — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026

Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki was scheduled to join survivors for a remembrance ceremony at Birkenau, the vast site nearby where Jews from across Europe were exterminated in gas chambers. — Vanessa Gera, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026

By 1883 the animals were virtually exterminated, said Smith, a retired University of Nebraska-Omaha history professor. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2025