extermination

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n. 消灭, 根绝

发音

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词形变化

exterminations 复数 exterminations

教材释义与例句

名词

消灭；根绝

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.

    可数 不可数

    extermination of error or vice

    extermination of weeds from a field

    Depending on the case, extermination of a group of people may constitute genocide or crime against humanity.

  2. 2.

    Elimination.

    可数 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

extinction liquidation

上位词 4

destruction devastation annihilation disintegration

相关短语

extermination camp extermination camps

词源

Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.

来源：wiktionary