Word Meanings - EXTERMINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• TOTALIZATOR
  A machine for registering and indicating the number and nature of bets made on horse races, as in Australia and South Africa. Called also totalizer.
• TOTALIZER
  Same as Totalizator.
• Destruction
  The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
• Destructionist
  One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.
• Eradication
  The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
• Fieldfare
  a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
• Fieldpiece
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• Fieldwork
  Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
• Exterminated
  of Exterminate

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