exterminate
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- (transitive) If you exterminate pests, you kill all of the population of it intentionally.
- We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
- (transitive) (figurative) If you exterminate something, you bring it to a definite end to it.
- The public school failed to exterminate truancy.