"extermination" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-us-extermination.ogg Forms: exterminations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|extermination}} Middle French extermination, {{der|en|EL.|exterminātiō}} Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} extermination (countable and uncountable, plural exterminations)
  1. The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (total destruction): excision Translations (the act of exterminating): إبادة (ʔibāda) [feminine] (Arabic), ոչնչացում (očʻnčʻacʻum) (Armenian), udrydning [common-gender] (Danish), extermination [feminine] (French), Ausrottung [feminine] (German), Vernichtung [feminine] (German), השמדה [feminine] (Hebrew), sterminazione [feminine] (Italian), sterminio [masculine] (Italian), eksterminasion (Ladino), eksterminio (Ladino), eksterminacja [feminine] (Polish), exterminação [feminine] (Portuguese), extermínio [masculine] (Portuguese), exterminare [feminine] (Romanian), exterminațiune [feminine] (Romanian), уничтоже́ние (uničtožénije) (Russian), истребле́ние (istreblénije) (Russian), exterminio [masculine] (Spanish), exterminación [feminine] (Spanish), erradicación [feminine] (Spanish)
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  2. Elimination. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-extermination-en-noun-Dk7Y0AaK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: extermination camp

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