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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Extermination \Ex*ter`mi*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. extermination.] 1. The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field. 2. (Math.) Elimination. [R.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: extermination n 1: complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs" [syn: {extinction}] 2: the act of exterminating [syn: {liquidation}]
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