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extermination
noun
The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
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'extermination' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means the complete destruction or elimination of something or someone. It is often used to describe the eradication of pests or other unwanted organisms. Example: The government declared a state of emergency to tackle the infestation of locusts and authorized the use of pesticides for their extermination.
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On a recent visit, your correspondent saw the burned villages and freshly scattered graves of both tribes.Congo is not Rwanda: it lacks the sophisticated, authoritarian political arrangements that enabled the Hutu government in 1994 to order the extermination of the Tutsis, and nearly to succeed in exterminating them.
Abd al-Barr al-Rawdhi, an imam from the north eastern town of San Donà di Piave, is to be deported after being video-recorded giving a sermon calling for the extermination of the Jews.
'There needs to be a natural extermination process for these infuriating people,' she says.
In an open letter to Tom Clausen, the bank's president, he told him to "stop financing the destruction of the tropical world, the devastation of its remaining forests, the extermination of its wildlife, and the impoverishment and starvation of its human inhabitants".
On 30 October 1944, with the Nazis in control of Budapest and the SS extermination chief, Adolf Eichmann, hard at work there, Madi worried that snooping neighbours or officials might discover her guests.
Slave labour to forge an agrarian Utopia; the torture and extermination of ethnic Vietnamese, Cham Muslims and intellectuals (ie, anyone who wore spectacles); and the systematic murder of babies: all were apparently somebody else's idea.In this section Justice and the killing fields trouble.uz?
The centre from which the extermination programme operated for much of the war was called "Aktion T4", owing to its location at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin.
The NSB's enthusiastic collusion in the extermination of 75% of the Netherlands's Jews didn't help.
The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation...but should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemic, pestilence and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and ten thousands.
Only with the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 did the term "Holocaust" become common currency for Germany's extermination of the Jews in the second world war.
Yet for many more recent visitors, such as the thousands of Israeli schoolchildren who tour the sites of Nazi death camps each year, the telling of Polish Jews' history has been overwhelmed by the story of their extermination.
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