Associations to the word «Extermination»

Wiktionary

EXTERMINATION, noun. The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
EXTERMINATION, noun. Elimination.
EXTERMINATION CAMP, noun. A death camp.
EXTERMINATION CAMPS, noun. Plural of extermination camp

Dictionary definition

EXTERMINATION, noun. Complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs".
EXTERMINATION, noun. The act of exterminating.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats