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   Exterminate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exterminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating.] [L. exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.]
   To drive out or away; to expel.
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   They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion.
   Barrow.
   
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   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.
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   To explode and exterminate rank atheism.
   Bentley.
   
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   (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]
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