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  • verb Present participle of exterminate.

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Examples

  • Replicants have been deemed illegal and Deckard is a blade runner, a specialist in exterminating them.

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  • Fellow democrats need to unite in exterminating the vermin from our party!

    Clinton adviser: Clinton 'willing' to lend campaign more money 2008

  • Fellow democrats need to unite in exterminating the vermin from our party!

    Clinton adviser: Clinton 'willing' to lend campaign more money 2008

  • But it's still odd to hear Heinrich Himmler, who at the time was engaged in exterminating millions of people, denouncing blood sports as 'the cold-blooded murder of innocent and defenceless animals', or attacking Goering, a noted huntsman, in these words.

    Archive 2005-03-27 Laban 2005

  • But it's still odd to hear Heinrich Himmler, who at the time was engaged in exterminating millions of people, denouncing blood sports as 'the cold-blooded murder of innocent and defenceless animals', or attacking Goering, a noted huntsman, in these words.

    Socialist Ideology And The Nazis Laban 2005

  • Yet, soon the Hutu Power radio station is broadcasting the prearranged code to begin exterminating the Tutsis: "Cut down the tall trees."

    "Hotel Rwanda" Steve Sailer 2005

  • Did you ever hear the theory that he, from his days as an expert in exterminating varmints, had know-how and/or connections to anthrax?

    Think Progress » DeLay judge 2005

  • They succeeded in exterminating family after family, but our fathers continued to come and drove the Indians back.

    Canadian Immigration and Consequent Problems 1910

  • For years back there has reigned over all these gardens a heavenly quiet - thanks to my heroic exertions in exterminating nuisances of every description.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • She found it an anti-Semitic, Nazi film because she thought the audience would conclude that it only corroborates the prejudice that exists against the Jews and defends the idea of exterminating them.

    Wednesday, May 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

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