Extermination (Noun)
Meaning 1
The act of exterminating.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The mass extermination of native species by invasive predators has become a major environmental concern.
- Pest control measures often involve extermination of unwanted insects and rodents.
- The systematic extermination of Jews during the Holocaust is one of the darkest chapters in human history.
- Biological warfare involves the use of microorganisms or toxins for extermination of humans, animals, or plants.
- The deliberate extermination of endangered species, such as rhinos or elephants, is a serious crime against wildlife conservation.
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Meaning 2
Complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The goal of the extreme measures was extermination, complete annihilation of the opposition by any means necessary.
- Some historians argue that the deliberate starvation was an attempt at extermination of the population by the oppressive regime.
- Climate change poses an extinction-level threat to polar bears, their habitat rapidly melting and ice platforms shrinking, bringing their very existence into peril of extermination.
- After multiple natural disasters ravaged the islands, researchers claimed the unusual disappearance of native birds might not have been from random misfortune, but near total extermination from various intersecting crises.
- Certain conspiracy theorists worry governments aim to justify premeditated extermination as eradication campaigns disguised behind eco or biological drives when ecological circumstances point conclusively against so unforgiving rationale