exterminate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
Related & opposite
- exterminator derivation
Sense 2 verb
destroy completely, as if down to the roots
the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted
Types & categories
- destroy hypernym
Related & opposite
- extirpation derivation
- eradication derivation
- ruiner derivation
- exterminator derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | exterminator |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | extirpation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | eradication |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ruiner |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exterminator |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | destroy |