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extermination

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

灭绝,灭绝术,灭亡,灭绝罪

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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

  • There was another group targeted by Hitler for extermination—the Roma.

  • Pioneers waged wars of extermination against wolves and other predators.

  • Camp Liberty was “a concentration camp” and “an extermination camp,” he said.

  • I was just the director of the extermination program at Auschwitz.

  • Even while I was doing the extermination work, I led a normal family life.

  • He carried this war of extermination up to Ilocos, where, little by little, his forces deserted him.

  • He prohibited the assemblies in the cemeteries, and reiterated the edict of extermination against the Christians.

  • Non licet esse vos—It is not lawful for you to exist—was the stern edict of extermination pronounced against the saints.

  • Their present restriction and partial extermination have been due to the incursions of the warlike Malays.

  • But their attacks angered the superior ones, and they began a campaign of extermination against the insect men's empire.

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