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Definition of Exterminated
1. Adjective. Destroyed completely.
Definition of Exterminated
1. Verb. (past of exterminate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exterminated
1. exterminate [v] - See also: exterminate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exterminated
Literary usage of Exterminated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... they neither exterminated nor assimilated the Roman inhabitants. ...
exterminated by the civilized man ; he rather dies out before him. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... only the short and doubtful respite of Vespasian's reign)(l) Rome groaned
beneath an unremitting tyranny, which exterminated the ancient families ..."
3. The Early and Middle Ages of England by Charles Henry Pearson (1861)
"BRITONS NOT Exterminated.—PROOFS OP THEIR CONTINUANCE IN ENGLAND. THE great
political events that took place in Britain during the fifth or sixth centuries ..."
4. The Old Red Sandstone: To which is Appended a Series of Geological Papers by Hugh Miller (1858)
"Successors of the exterminated Tribes. — The Gap slowly filled.— Proof that the
Vegetation of a ... exterminated ..."
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