Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to exterminate
Participle: exterminated
Gerund: exterminating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | exterminate |
| you | exterminate |
| he;she;it | exterminates |
| we | exterminate |
| you | exterminate |
| they | exterminate |
Perfect
| I | have exterminated |
| you | have exterminated |
| he;she;it | has exterminated |
| we | have exterminated |
| you | have exterminated |
| they | have exterminated |
Past
| I | exterminated |
| you | exterminated |
| he;she;it | exterminated |
| we | exterminated |
| you | exterminated |
| they | exterminated |
Pluperfect
| I | had exterminated |
| you | had exterminated |
| he;she;it | had exterminated |
| we | had exterminated |
| you | had exterminated |
| they | had exterminated |
Future
| I | will exterminate |
| you | will exterminate |
| he;she;it | will exterminate |
| we | will exterminate |
| you | will exterminate |
| they | will exterminate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have exterminated |
| you | will have exterminated |
| he;she;it | will have exterminated |
| we | will have exterminated |
| you | will have exterminated |
| they | will have exterminated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | exterminate |
| you | exterminate |
| he;she;it | exterminate |
| we | exterminate |
| you | exterminate |
| they | exterminate |
Perfect
| I | have exterminated |
| you | have exterminated |
| he;she;it | have exterminated |
| we | have exterminated |
| you | have exterminated |
| they | have exterminated |
Imperfect
| I | exterminated |
| you | exterminated |
| he;she;it | exterminated |
| we | exterminated |
| you | exterminated |
| they | exterminated |
Pluperfect
| I | had exterminated |
| you | had exterminated |
| he;she;it | had exterminated |
| we | had exterminated |
| you | had exterminated |
| they | had exterminated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would exterminate |
| you | would exterminate |
| he;she;it | would exterminate |
| we | would exterminate |
| you | would exterminate |
| they | would exterminate |
Perfect
| I | would have exterminated |
| you | would have exterminated |
| he;she;it | would have exterminated |
| we | would have exterminated |
| you | would have exterminated |
| they | would have exterminated |
Imperative
| you | exterminate |
| we | Let's exterminate |
| you | exterminate |
Verbs conjugated like 'exterminate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'exterminate'
determinate,
egerminate,
extermine,
interminate,
terminate,
effeminate,
extricate,
germinate,
ingerminate,
intermicate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To bring a definite end to, finish completely.
- destroy
- to put to death; to extinguish life.
- annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck
- annihilate
- obliterate, abolish, destroy, eliminate, eradicate, extirpate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exterminātus, perfect passive participle of exterminō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ex- (“thoroughly”) + terminō (“to finish, close, end”), from terminus (“limit, end”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Sample Sentences
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We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
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The natives everywhere eat their [sc. cuscuses] flesh, and as their motions are so slow, easily catch them by climbing; so that it is wonderful they have not been exterminated. It may be, however, that their dense woolly fur protects them from birds of prey, and the islands they live in are too thinly inhabited for man to be able to exterminate them. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 142:]
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The geth are a humanoid race of networked A.I.s. They were created by the quarians 300 years ago as tools of labor and war. When the geth showed signs of self-evolution, the quarians attempted to exterminate them. The geth won the resulting war. This example has led to legal, systematic repression of artificial intelligences in galactic society. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Geth Codex entry:]
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Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s. [2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 10:12 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:]
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The public school failed to exterminate truancy.