extermination
The English word “extermination” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
- Elimination.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.
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