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extermination

noun as in annihilation

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There was another group targeted by Hitler for extermination—the Roma.

Pioneers waged wars of extermination against wolves and other predators.

Camp Liberty was “a concentration camp” and “an extermination camp,” he said.

I was just the director of the extermination program at Auschwitz.

Even while I was doing the extermination work, I led a normal family life.

He carried this war of extermination up to Ilocos, where, little by little, his forces deserted him.

He prohibited the assemblies in the cemeteries, and reiterated the edict of extermination against the Christians.

Non licet esse vos—It is not lawful for you to exist—was the stern edict of extermination pronounced against the saints.

Their present restriction and partial extermination have been due to the incursions of the warlike Malays.

But their attacks angered the superior ones, and they began a campaign of extermination against the insect men's empire.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to extermination, such as: destruction, elimination, eradication, extinction, genocide, and liquidation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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