Crossword-Solution: EXTERMINATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Exterminate | v. t. | To drive out or away; to expel. |
| Exterminate | v. t. | 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. |
| Exterminate | v. t. | To eliminate, as unknown quantities. |
We have 76 clues for the answer “EXTERMINATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wipe out completely, as pests | 1 answer |
| Work out all the bugs? | 1 answer |
| Suggested course of action upon encountering the Doctor | 1 answer |
| Get rid of a ???, say | 1 answer |
| destroy utterly | 2 answers |
| Fill a room with poisonous smoke to disinfect it | 2 answers |
| Destroy totally | 3 answers |
| PUT out of existence | 5 answers |
| unmake | 6 answers |
| root out | 8 answers |
| atomise | 9 answers |
| do for | 12 answers |
| MAKE massacre of | 13 answers |
| Uproot | 13 answers |
| assassinate | 14 answers |
| Raze | 15 answers |
| Slay | 16 answers |
| finish off | 20 answers |
| Expunge | 20 answers |
| bump off | 20 answers |
| Rub out | 21 answers |
| do in | 22 answers |
| Extirpate | 22 answers |
| Do away with | 23 answers |
| blot out | 25 answers |
| Decimate | 25 answers |
| Devastate | 29 answers |
| Liquidate | 29 answers |
| Erase | 31 answers |
| Butcher | 31 answers |
| Wipe out | 34 answers |
| make short work of | 34 answers |
| Knock off | 40 answers |
| Gut | 41 answers |
| MAKE flatter | 42 answers |
| dilapidate | 42 answers |
| annihilate | 45 answers |
| massacre | 46 answers |
| Sabotage | 47 answers |
| Ravage | 47 answers |
| SUFFOCATE | 48 answers |
| BLACK out | 48 answers |
| MAKE mincemeat of | 49 answers |
| count out | 50 answers |
| eradicate | 51 answers |
| Abolish | 51 answers |
| Abate | 51 answers |
| subvert | 52 answers |
| drown | 52 answers |
| Demolish | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXTERMINATE (5)
Did they grasp that we in our millions were organized, disciplined, working together? Or did they interpret our spurts of fire, the sudden stinging of our shells, our steady investment of their encampment, as we should the furious unanimity of onslaught in a disturbed hive of bees? Did they dream they might exterminate us? (At that time no one knew what food they needed.) A hundred such questions struggled together in my mind as I watched that vast sentinel shape.
The ape stood looking about him at the havoc he had wrought, but whether he was awaiting a renewal of the attack or was deliberating which of his foes he should exterminate first Paulvitch could not guess.
Shoot them, the poor devils, drown them, exterminate them, if you will, in the interest of public morality; it may be morality would gain--I dare say it would! But if you suffer them to live, let them live on their own terms and according to their own inexorable needs!” Rowland burst out laughing.
And incidentally, Bel, tell her that she can't exterminate me more than once a day, and the performance is accomplished for the present.
Instead of seeking the cause of the evil in his mind and heart, man blames his masters, his rivals, his neighbors, and himself; nations arm themselves, and slay and exterminate each other, until equilibrium is restored by the vast depopulation, and peace again arises from the ashes of the combatants.
Quotes with EXTERMINATE (3)
I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die and how many are killed; but, from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly i…
Inside Critics The critical voices in our own heads are far more vicious than what we might hear from the outside. Our "inside critics" have intimate knowledge of us and can zero in on our weakest spots. You might be told by the critics that you're too fat, too old, too young, not intelligent enough, a quitter, not logical, prone to try too many things... It's all balderdash! Some elements of these may be true, and it's completely up to you how they affect you. Inside critics…
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Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1987–2022).