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exterminate v. [
kill off] kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
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exterminate v. [
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out] destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
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