- past tense form of exterminate.
- past participle 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
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
Gray wolves were exterminated across most of the U.S. by the 1930s under government-sponsored poisoning and trapping campaigns.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
Without access to coral reefs or productive shallow waters, and with their terrestrial birds quickly exterminated, Easter Islanders turned to constructing chicken houses for intensive poultry farming.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
