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Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.

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  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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extermination (countable and uncountable, plural exterminations)

  1. The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication
    extermination of error or vice
    extermination of weeds from a field
    Depending on the case, extermination of a group of people may constitute genocide or crime against humanity.
    • 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
      Caley locomotive types, especially such numerous things as McIntosh goods and tank engines, have defied extermination over a good many years now.
  2. Elimination.

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Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiōnem. By surface analysis, exterminer +‎ -ation.

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extermination f (plural exterminations)

  1. extermination

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