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  • adjective destroyed completely.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of exterminate.

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  • adjective destroyed completely

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Examples

  • Not the branches of this accursed tree, but the trunk and the roots, must be exterminated from the land.

    Memorial Sermons 1865

  • Perhaps I’m supposed to respect the views of The Creativity Movement, who holds that all non-Whites, non-Christianians should be exterminated from the earth?

    Waldo Jaquith - Pi is exactly three! 2007

  • This tribe of Apaches has given the government of the United States almost as much trouble as have the Seminoles in Florida, and I hesitate not in saying, that before they are exterminated, which is the only sure plan of making

    The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

  • This tribe of Apaches has given the government of the United States almost as much trouble as have the Seminoles in Florida, and I hesitate not in saying, that before they are exterminated, which is the only sure plan of making a peace with them, they will have surpassed their red brethren of the swamps of the South in the number and enormity of their crimes.

    The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson Peters, DeWitt C 1858

  • There is not mine and yours, but this expression is exterminated, that is a cause of countless wars.

    Deacon's Blog 2008

  • There is not mine and yours, but this expression is exterminated, that is a cause of countless wars.

    Deacon's Blog 2008

  • There is not mine and yours, but this expression is exterminated, that is a cause of countless wars.

    Deacon's Blog 2008

  • There is not mine and yours, but this expression is exterminated, that is a cause of countless wars.

    Deacon's Blog 2008

  • There is not mine and yours, but this expression is exterminated, that is a cause of countless wars.

    Deacon's Blog 2008

  • I personally cannot think of a more adequate term, especially since General Westermann bragged about the fact that he had "exterminated" everyone in the Vendée.... more

    Archive 2008-12-28 de Brantigny........................ 2008

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