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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Exterminate

/ĭk-stẽrm'-ən-ātˌ/ · Ex·ter·mi·nate · IPA /ɪkˈstɝ.mɪ.neɪt/
01 v. t. To drive out or away; to expel.
imp. & p. p. Exterminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating
  1. 1.
    To drive out or away; to expel.
    “They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion.” Barrow.
  2. 2.
    To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
    “To explode and exterminate rank atheism.” Bentley.
  3. 3.
    To eliminate, as unknown quantities.(Math.) [R.]