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Synonyms for extermination
ex·ter·mi·na·tion
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extermination
Synonyms:
eradication, extirpation, abolition, destructionAntonyms:
settlement, replenishment, augmentation, colonization, population, propagation, increase
Princeton's WordNet
extinction, exterminationnoun
complete annihilation
"they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"
Synonyms:
experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, liquidation, extinguishing, extinctionextermination, liquidationnoun
the act of exterminating
Synonyms:
settlement, elimination, liquidation, extinction
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
exterminationnoun
Synonyms:
extirpation, eradication, annihilation, destruction, extinction, abolition, excisionexterminationnoun
Synonyms:
(Math.) elimination
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
exterminationnoun
Synonyms:
eradication, extirpation, uprooting
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "extermination":
annihilation, genocide, extinction, destruction, eradication, culling
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4075 | settlement | |
#5264 | destruction | |
#9436 | elimination | |
#14417 | genocide | |
#16484 | extinction | |
#17647 | liquidation | |
#23148 | eradication | |
#24460 | abolition | |
#30957 | annihilation | |
#41263 | extinguishing | |
#42514 | extermination | |
#49768 | culling | |
#50529 | quenching | |
#140219 | extirpation |
How to use extermination in a sentence?
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi:
The failure of the military coup...was backed by the former regime, which was one of the perpetrators of extermination, murder and displacement.
Romania Prosecutor Denisa Cristodor:
It was a regime of physical and mental extermination.
The American delay in officially declaring what has happened to the Christians officially as genocide, or mass extermination and systematic persecution has caused a huge disappointment among the Christians, they have waited a long time for the international community, especially America, to declare this so that they can be supported and protected in their own country.
That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the races until the Indian race becomes extinct must be expected.
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