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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'exterminated by' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to express that something has been completely destroyed or eliminated. For example, "The population of tigers in the area had been exterminated by illegal hunting activities."
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These peoples were exterminated by Caesar in 55 bce.
In some places it has been exterminated by plume hunters.
· Thursday, 9pm, BBC2 Torchwood What happens when you've been exterminated by the Daleks?
Killing was often wasteful and the species was exterminated by 1768, less than 30 years after it was first discovered.
These originally included several species of moa, a large bird that was eventually exterminated by the Maori.
Hirst's contribution included a huge glass enclosure, within which houseflies continually hatched from maggots and were exterminated by a zapper.
Walid found it unbearable to sit at home while Muslims were being exterminated by Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Growing out of control, the supercolony in effect eats up its own territory and is exterminated by "the moving tree trunks, the ant gods"—ie, humans spraying insecticide.
Except for a small remnant that survived, either in hiding or in the concentration camps, the remainder of the Jewish Viennese were exterminated by the Nazis.
Although they were nearly exterminated by market hunting in the 19th century, elk have been widely reintroduced throughout North America and are now thriving.
They were probably exterminated by overhunting or habitat modification by the Malagasy people, who arrived on the island less than 2,000 years ago.
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