Synonyms for extermination
ex·ter·mi·na·tion

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1. extermination

   Synonyms:
   eradication, extirpation, abolition, destruction

   Antonyms:
   settlement, replenishment, augmentation, colonization, population, propagation, increase

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1. extinction, exterminationnoun

   complete annihilation

   "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"

   Synonyms:
   experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, liquidation, extinguishing, extinction

2. extermination, liquidationnoun

   the act of exterminating

   Synonyms:
   settlement, elimination, liquidation, extinction

Matched Categories

1. • Annihilation
   • Destruction

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1. exterminationnoun

   Synonyms:
   extirpation, eradication, annihilation, destruction, extinction, abolition, excision

2. exterminationnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Math.) elimination

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1. exterminationnoun

   Synonyms:
   eradication, extirpation, uprooting

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1. List of paraphrases for "extermination":

   annihilation, genocide, extinction, destruction, eradication, culling

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How to use extermination in a sentence?

1. Saleh Hashem:

   What unity could there be after the destruction we see on our streets and wars of extermination against the south? Forget it.

2. Lewis Mumford:

   Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

3. Ulysses S. Grant:

   Wars of extermination, engaged in by people pursuing commerce and all industrial pursuits, are expensive even against the weakest people, and are demoralizing and wicked.

4. Romania Prosecutor Denisa Cristodor:

   What surprised me is (former prisoners) made no material demands, the historic reparation was enough, it was a regime of physical and mental extermination.

5. Mykhailo Kostiv:

   The main tool in 1932-33 was extermination by starvation, taking away all foodstuffs and making conditions incompatible with life. It is the same now. Creating conditions incompatible with life, but now there is a wider range of tools, and they are more military related. New weapons, new missiles. A huge mass of troops aimed at destroying and suppressing Ukrainian resistance.