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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Extermination

/ĭk-stẽrmˌ-ən-āsh'-ən/ · Ex·ter·mi·na·tion · IPA /ɪkstˌɜrmənˈeɪʃən/
01 n. The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of…
  1. 1.
    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.
  2. 2.
    Elimination.(Math.) [R.]