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Terminator   /tˈərmənˌeɪtər/   Listen
Terminator

noun
1.
Someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects).  Synonyms: eradicator, exterminator.






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"Terminator" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a few hundreds or even one or two thousands of feet could possibly be detected, while certainly all we know of planetary formation or structure point strongly towards some inequalities of surface. Mr. Lowell admits that the dark portions of the surface, when examined on the terminator (the margin of the illuminated portion), do look like hollows and may be the beds of dried-up seas; yet the supposed canals run across these old sea-beds in perfect straight lines just as they do across the many thousand miles of ...
— Is Mars Habitable? • Alfred Russel Wallace

... his last illness. "It is very nice," he told his nurse, "to see dear Madame Novikoff again, but I am going down hill fast, and cannot hope to be well enough to see much of her." This is in November, 1890; on New Year's Eve came the inexorable, "Terminator of delights and ...
— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell



Words linked to "Terminator" :   slayer, exterminator, killer, eradicator



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