1. (

• exterminate ,
• kill_off

) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" ;

2. (

• uproot ,
• eradicate ,
• extirpate ,
• root_out ,
• exterminate

) destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"; "root out corruption" ;