exterminate

About 0.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population, often of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.

   We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.

2. verb To bring a definite end to; to finish completely.

   The public school failed to exterminate truancy.

Similar words

kill off eradicate extirpate uproot annihilate kill eliminate eradication slay destroy

Often followed by

the them all it a their us these this

Word family

exterminated exterminates exterminating extermination exterminations exterminator exterminators