- past participle of exterminate.
- past tense form of exterminate.
exterminated
Example Sentences
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Within about 50 years, the crocodiles had been completely exterminated.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
Along with the passenger pigeon we exterminated the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the Labrador duck and the ivory-billed woodpecker.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Live mosquitoes will be exterminated using ultraviolet light.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
It’s as though, having all but exterminated a plague, we decided we no longer needed to keep up the pyric hygiene that contained it.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
There is an old piece of wisdom in biohazard work that goes like this: you can never know when life is exterminated.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
