exterminate

英 [ɪkˈstɜːmɪneɪt]

美 [ɪkˈstɜːrmɪneɪt]

v.  灭绝; 根除; 消灭; 毁灭

过去分词：exterminated　现在分词：exterminating　过去式：exterminated　第三人称单数：exterminates　

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Collins.1 / BNC.20277 / COCA.17637

牛津词典

verb

• 灭绝；根除；消灭；毁灭
  to kill all the members of a group of people or animals

柯林斯词典

• VERB 消灭;灭绝;根除
  Toexterminatea group of people or animals means to kill all of them.
  1. A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats...
     灭鼠花了大力气。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。

双语例句

• A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats
  灭鼠花了大力气。
• Make one move and I'll exterminate you!
  敢动一动，我灭了你。
• To protect their business, European farmers have started to exterminate at-risk animals and quarantine the others.
  为保护他们的经济，欧洲农场主便开始消除已处于染病状态的牲畜，检疫并隔离其他动物。
• He did what powerful people often do: exploit and exterminate.
  他就像那些有权势的人所做的一样：利用和除灭。
• We can exterminate insects with an insecticide.
  我们可以用杀虫药剂灭虫。
• But I felt it my duty to exterminate evil.
  但是我觉得我有消灭那种恶势力的义务。
• The fact that the Palestinians still talk about Jaffa, she says, just proves that they want to exterminate us.
  她说，巴勒斯坦人仍在谈论雅法只是说明了他们想消灭我们。
• Dry disaster, is on the earth, endanger the biggest disaster, can exterminate mankind or thing, the wealthy nation becomes poor, even in perish.
  干旱灾害，是地球上，危害最大的灾害，可以消灭人类或物类，富裕的国家变到贫穷，甚至于灭亡。
• He's come to exterminate us, hasn't he?
  他来这里是为了根除我们不是吗？
• They want something written on their bags and one of our new pictures is decorated with the words exterminate the poor, more public toilets and Eli is gay, but we don't think that they would want that on handbags.
  我们的新照片之一上面写着消灭穷人、建造更多的公共厕所和伊莱是同性恋。但我们认为他们不希望在手袋上出现这些语句。