( v. t. )
To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
( v. t. )
To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012