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Definition of Extermine
1. v. t. To exterminate; to destroy.
Definition of Extermine
1. [v -MINED, -MINING, -MINES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extermine
Literary usage of Extermine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ninety-six Sermons by Lancelot Andrewes (1841)
"Which very point makes the fast loose ; and indeed makes it to be no fast at all;
they extermine their countenances so long, that they extermine fast and ..."
2. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"When Gallic hosts, ungrateful men, Our race meant to extermine, Pray did committees
save us then, Or Hancock, or such vermin ? Then faction spurn! think for ..."
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