exterminate

🇬🇧/ɪkˈstɜːmɪneɪt/ 🇺🇸/ɪkˈstɜːrmɪneɪt/
VCE 📚 18500 1 托福 雅思
To exterminate a group of people or animals means to kill all of them. 消灭

verb [vt. 及物动词] vt. 消灭;根除

A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats. 花了大气力来消灭这些老鼠。

后缀: ate 【verb/adjective】 表示使成为或具有某种特性的 - indicating to make or become 原词: exterminate 是通过后缀 【ate】 构成的派生词
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Lesson 17 A man-made disease exterminate 动词: 消灭
ex(出) + termin(界限) + ate → 超出生存的界限 → 消除
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...the extermination of hundreds of thousands of their brethren. …他们几十万同胞的灭绝。
Wondrously, scientists have found lately that the white blood cells in the human body's immune system can locate, attack, and exterminate particles harming our body. 令人啧啧称奇的是,科学家们最近发现,人类免疫系统内的白血球,能够寻找、攻击、以及歼灭会伤害我们身体的微粒。