exterminate

英 [ɪkˈstɜːmɪneɪt]

美 [ɪkˈstɜːrmɪneɪt]

v.  灭绝; 根除; 消灭; 毁灭

过去分词：exterminated　现在分词：exterminating　过去式：exterminated　第三人称单数：exterminates　

TOEFLIELTSGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.20277 / COCA.17637

牛津词典

verb

• 灭绝；根除；消灭；毁灭
  to kill all the members of a group of people or animals

柯林斯词典

• VERB 消灭;灭绝;根除
  Toexterminatea group of people or animals means to kill all of them.
  1. A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats...
     灭鼠花了大力气。
  2. They have a real fear that they'll be exterminated in the ongoing civil war...
     他们十分害怕自己会在持续的内战中被彻底消灭。
  3. Man is exterminating too many species for zoos to be much help.
     人类正在导致过多物种灭绝，动物园也无济于事。

双语例句

• He did what powerful people often do: exploit and exterminate.
  他就像那些有权势的人所做的一样：利用和除灭。
• They have a real fear that they'll be exterminated in the ongoing civil war
  他们十分害怕自己会在持续的内战中被彻底消灭。
• Dry disaster, is on the earth, endanger the biggest disaster, can exterminate mankind or thing, the wealthy nation becomes poor, even in perish.
  干旱灾害，是地球上，危害最大的灾害，可以消灭人类或物类，富裕的国家变到贫穷，甚至于灭亡。
• The fact that the Palestinians still talk about Jaffa, she says, just proves that they want to exterminate us.
  她说，巴勒斯坦人仍在谈论雅法只是说明了他们想消灭我们。
• To protect their business, European farmers have started to exterminate at-risk animals and quarantine the others.
  为保护他们的经济，欧洲农场主便开始消除已处于染病状态的牲畜，检疫并隔离其他动物。
• Nationalist officers gave orders in many areas to exterminate the civilian population.
  国民军军官在许多地方下令对当地老百姓斩尽杀绝。
• You know the great population – we're exterminating them, but they're about to exterminate us.
  要知道他们数量众多&现在我们在消灭他们，但将来他们会消灭我们！
• Some people exterminate garden insects by spraying poison on the plants.
  有些人在植物上喷撒毒剂以杀死花园内的昆虫。
• Once cockroaches get into a building, it's very difficult to exterminate them.
  一旦蟑螂进了楼，就很难根除它们。
• We've made great efforts to exterminate mosquitoes and flies.
  我们作了很大努力来消灭蚊蝇。