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exterminate v.消除 To exterminate means "to kill off or destroy completely." Notice that it includes the word terminate which means, “to end.” It is usually used in reference to insects or rodents, but also unfortunately in reference to people or groups of people. It is just a coincidence that this verb shares a syllable with termite — a bug that often has to be exterminated before it eats through the wood of your home. ★☆☆☆☆ 2010.6

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[ek'stə:mineit] If your house becomes infested with cockroaches, mice, or even ants, you might have to exterminate them. It is certainly not a pleasant process, but often quite necessary. … and that no speical interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of benefit, real or fancied, to itself. 1[VERB 动词]消灭；灭绝；根除 To exterminate a group of people or animals means to kill all of them.   [V n]A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats...灭鼠花了大力气。They have a real fear that they'll be exterminated in the ongoing civil war...他们十分害怕自己会在持续的内战中被彻底消灭。Man is exterminating too many species for zoos to be much help.人类正在导致过多物种灭绝，动物园也无济于事。extermination...the extermination of hundreds of thousands of their countrymen.他们几十万同胞的灭绝

英语单词	exterminate
英美音标	[ek'stə:mineit]
中文释义	v.消除
vocab简明	If your house becomes infested with cockroaches, mice, or even ants, you might have to exterminate them. It is certainly not a pleasant process, but often quite necessary.
vocab扩展	To exterminate means "to kill off or destroy completely." Notice that it includes the word terminate which means, “to end.” It is usually used in reference to insects or rodents, but also unfortunately in reference to people or groups of people. It is just a coincidence that this verb shares a syllable with termite — a bug that often has to be exterminated before it eats through the wood of your home.
真题原句	… and that no speical interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of benefit, real or fancied, to itself.
柯林斯星级	★☆☆☆☆
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]消灭；灭绝；根除 To exterminate a group of people or animals means to kill all of them. [V n] A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats... 灭鼠花了大力气。 They have a real fear that they'll be exterminated in the ongoing civil war... 他们十分害怕自己会在持续的内战中被彻底消灭。 Man is exterminating too many species for zoos to be much help. 人类正在导致过多物种灭绝，动物园也无济于事。 extermination ...the extermination of hundreds of thousands of their countrymen. 他们几十万同胞的灭绝
来源	2010.6

Exterminate Means Kill Reference People Real Extermination Ek'stə:Mineit