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発音

• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

extermination (countable and uncountable, plural exterminations)

1. The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.

   extermination of error or vice

   extermination of weeds from a field

   Depending on the case, extermination of a group of people may constitute genocide or crime against humanity.

   • 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:

     Caley locomotive types, especially such numerous things as McIntosh goods and tank engines, have defied extermination over a good many years now.

2. Elimination.

同意語

• (total destruction): excision

派生語