as in eradicates
to destroy all traces of
hope that the fumigant exterminates the whole colony of cockroaches, for any survivors may be resistant to any poison
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Recent Examples of exterminates
Pest control companies have decades of experience treating fleas, and build a plan that not only exterminates the fleas, but prevents them from resurfacing in the future.
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Alora Bopray, USA Today, 18 June 2026
Alora Bopray, USA Today, 18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exterminates
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Treating the underlying condition eradicates the need for drug treatments that act globally.—
Dr. Patricia Richard,
Hartford Courant,
14 Apr. 2026
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This method completely eradicates weeds on contact without any toxic chemicals.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2026
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When the model is the only edge, an open-source release erases it, so the moat has to be proprietary data and workflow.—
Alex Lazarow,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The whole thing with Pullman porters is they weren’t called by their names, they were all called George, so that erases your identity.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2026
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Instead, this measure abolishes them.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Aug. 2025
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An agent that cannot reliably query real-time pricing and inventory, or that cannot preserve brand logic through a checkout flow, destroys the value that luxury merchants have spent decades building.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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April freeze destroys crops Early on the morning of April 21, temperatures in Maryland dropped into the low 20s after weeks of unseasonably warm weather.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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“Exterminates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exterminates. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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