Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving or tending to exterminate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate.
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- adjective relating to or marked by
extermination
Etymologies
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Examples
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Check out this fantastic Dalek Christmas tree, a nightmare of exterminatory, glittery cheer.
Boing Boing 2008
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Thus the Jewish state, desperate for peace and institutionally traumatised from six decades of exterminatory attrition directed at it solely for the crime of existing, has its victimisation not only erased but turned against it in a systematic inversion of truth and lies.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The contribution that these charities have made in helping form the monstrous view that Israel is a demonic aggressor rather than the historic victim of exterminatory aggression – a viewpoint which has unleashed the current wave of Jew-hatred in Britain and the west – cannot be exaggerated.
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The contribution that these charities have made in helping form the monstrous view that Israel is a demonic aggressor rather than the historic victim of exterminatory aggression – a viewpoint which has unleashed the current wave of Jew-hatred in Britain and the west – cannot be exaggerated.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The Final Solution, as the Nazis called it, was originally only one of the exterminatory projects to be implemented after a victorious war against the Soviet Union.
Holocaust: The Ignored Reality Snyder, Timothy 2009
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Thus the Jewish state, desperate for peace and institutionally traumatised from six decades of exterminatory attrition directed at it solely for the crime of existing, has its victimisation not only erased but turned against it in a systematic inversion of truth and lies.
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Ten years after writing that, Churchill led the way in cruel, brutish, and exterminatory war-making against women and children, partly thanks to his uncompromising personality, partly thanks to what was seen as the logic of the situation.
Churchill and His Myths Wheatcroft, Geoffrey 2008
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Yet the Islamic world pretends that the Christian world is engaged in an act of exterminatory aggression against it.
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He'd hear on hate radio -- there was a Rwandan radio station that just propagated exterminatory propaganda about the Tutsi "cockroaches," they called them.
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Indeed we should be mutually justified in this exterminatory war upon each other, full as much as you are in the unprovoked persecution of your present countrymen, on account of the conduct of men of the same name in other times.
Paras. 225-249 1909
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