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exterminate

/ik-stur-muh-neyt/US // ɪkˈstɜr məˌneɪt //UK // (ɪkˈstɜːmɪˌneɪt) //

灭亡,诛灭,灭掉,诛杀

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·ter·mi·nat·ed, ex·ter·mi·nat·ing.

    • : to get rid of by destroying; destroy totally; extirpate: to exterminate an enemy; to exterminate insects.

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Examples

  • His big winning idea was to exterminate poverty for 3 million elderly people in Korea by publishing an interactive research paper to influence Korean pension reform.

  • Fingers crossed that one of those over-the-air updates exterminates this bug without introducing something worse.

  • I should have voted for at least three presidential candidates at this point in my life, but that possibility where I come from was exterminated like a deadly pandemic.

  • Stamets’ other mushroom nostrums include dissolving petroleum waste, exterminating unwanted insects, and creating vaccines that can eradicate viruses.

  • Next was World War II: machine enabled Hitler, who in turn attempted to exterminate an entire people.

  • Riegner warned the Allies that Berlin had a plan to exterminate all Jews in countries occupied or controlled by Germany.

  • I think your efforts also may rival that of Germany's Adolf Hitler in his attempt to exterminate an entire race of people.

  • “We expect the regime to try to exterminate us all,” he said.

  • Despite having the nickname “the exterminator,” DeLay did not try to exterminate wasteful spending when in power.

  • There was not a moment to lose, for one well-directed shot might exterminate half of us.

  • From the very first of the war their work was to help exterminate the guerrilla bands which infested the State.

  • The regular troops, the constabulary, and other armed forces combined were unable to exterminate brigandage.

  • You like to divide yourselves into nations, to trick yourselves out in national costumes, and to exterminate each other to music!

  • Shepherds have entered into a conspiracy to exterminate the wolves.