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Exterminated   /ɪkstˈərmənˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Exterminated

adjective
1.
Destroyed completely.  Synonyms: annihilated, wiped out.



Exterminate

verb
(past & past part. exterminated; pres. part. exterminating)
1.
Kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many.  Synonym: kill off.
2.
Destroy completely, as if down to the roots.  Synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, root out, uproot.  "Root out corruption"






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"Exterminated" Quotes from Famous Books



... lake shore towns; tall plumes of smoke shook and threatened. Curtly, while we ate, White Quiver told us what had happened; how the Tallegewi, in violation of the treaty, had fallen suddenly on scattered bands of the Lenni-Lenape and all but exterminated them. The Tallegewi said that it was because they had discovered that the Lenni-Lenape had plotted to fall upon our towns, as soon as the corn was harvested, and take them. But White Quiver thought that the whole thing was a plan of Well-Praised from the beginning. He had been afraid ...
— The Trail Book • Mary Austin et al

... his tribe now became no better than outlaws, and preyed so effectively upon the remnants of the dead Wabigoon's people that the latter were almost exterminated. Those who were left moved to the vicinity of the Post. Hunters from Wabinosh House were ambushed and slain. Indians who came to the Post to trade were regarded as enemies, and the passing of years seemed to make but little difference. The feud still existed. The ...
— The Wolf Hunters - A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood

... to the Plains Indians was, as I have explained, originally a peace measure, and apparently a necessity in place of their buffalo which the white man had exterminated. For many years Texas beef was issued monthly "on the hoof"; that is, the cattle were driven out one by one upon the plain, and there surrounded and shot down by representatives of the groups to which they ...
— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman

... pike—in the same way, we suppose, that a piece of red flannel will attract a mackerel. If our readers wish to try it, they can buy it at almost any tackle shop. Pike are to be found in almost all lochs, though in the more frequented of our Scotch waters they are being slowly but surely exterminated. In others, again, they reign almost alone. But pike-fishing by itself is a poor affair, and we advise our readers only to take to it when they can do nought better. If any of them wish to go below the level ...
— Scotch Loch-Fishing • AKA Black Palmer, William Senior

... have done the same. The advantages and disadvantages of subdivision were in full play. The Scots fought furiously against the English—and when the latter won, as was usually the case, the Scots contingent, whatever bounty might be shown to the French, was always exterminated. On the other side the Burgundians, the Armagnacs, and Royalists met each other almost more fiercely than the latter encountered the English. Each country was convulsed by struggles of its own, and fiercely sought ...
— Jeanne d'Arc - Her Life And Death • Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant


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