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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
EXTERM'INATING, ppr. Driving away or totally destroying; eradicating; extirpating.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Exterminate Ex*ter"mi*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exterminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating.] [L. exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.] 1. To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. --Barrow. 2. To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. --Bentley. 3. (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]
