exterminate
exterminate 英 [ɪkˈstɜ:mɪneɪt] 美 [ɪkˈstɜrmɪneɪt]
vt. 消灭；根除
进行时:exterminating 过去式:exterminated 过去分词:exterminated 第三人称单数:exterminates 名词复数:exterminates
- If your house becomes infested with cockroaches, mice, or even ants, you might have to exterminate them. It is certainly not a pleasant process, but often quite necessary.
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- vt. 消灭；根除
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1. 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。
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2. We've been ordered to exterminate them.
我们奉命铲除他们。
- exterminate (v.) 1540s, "drive away," from Latin exterminatus, past participle of exterminare "drive out, expel, put aside, drive beyond boundaries," also, in Late Latin "destroy," from phrase ex termine "beyond the boundary," from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + termine, ablative of termen "boundary, limit, end" (see terminus).
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