exterminate

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verb

1. kill en masse;
kill on a large scale;
kill many (Freq. 3)
- Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe
• Syn:
kill off
• Derivationally related forms:
exterminator
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to exterminate the prisoners
2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption
• Syn:
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out
• Derivationally related forms:
extirpation (for: extirpate), eradication (for: eradicate), eradicator (for: eradicate), uprooter (for: uproot)
• Hypernyms:
destroy, destruct
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, kill off