exterminate

Verbs

  • (v) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
    • Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe
    kill off,
  • (v) destroy completely, as if down to the roots
    • the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted
    • root out corruption
    extirpate, eradicate, root out, uproot,

Synonyms

kill off extirpate eradicate root out uproot

Words of close approximity

exterminated