Exterminate /(?)/

Ex·ter·mi·nate

Exterminate

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Exterminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating

  1. To drive out or away; to expel.
    They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion.
  2. 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.
    To explode and exterminate rank atheism.
  3. To eliminate, as unknown quantities. (Math.) [R.]