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Verb exterminate has 2 senses
- exterminate, kill off - kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
--1 is one way to kill
Sample sentence:
They want to exterminate the prisoners
- uproot, eradicate, extirpate, exterminate - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
--2 is one way to destroy, destruct
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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