exterminate

• vt. 消灭；根除

ex-, 向外。-term, 界限，终端，词源同term, terminal. 即赶到界限外面，根除。

exterminate (v.)

1540s, "drive away," from Latin exterminatus, past participle of exterminare "drive out, expel, put aside, drive beyond boundaries," also, in Late Latin "destroy," from phrase ex termine "beyond the boundary," from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + termine, ablative of termen "boundary, limit, end" (see terminus).

Meaning "destroy utterly" is from 1640s in English, a sense found in equivalent words in French and in the Vulgate; earlier in this sense was extermine (mid-15c.). Related: Exterminated; exterminating.

1. A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats.

灭鼠花了大力气。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Some people exterminate garden insects by spraying poison on the plants.

有些人在植物上喷撒毒剂以杀死花园内的昆虫.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. It is necessary to exterminate the post at the sawmill.

必须端掉锯木厂边的哨所.

来自辞典例句

4. This spray will exterminate the termites.

这种喷剂能消灭白蚁.

来自辞典例句

5. Vermin don't have to exterminate themselves.

虫豸是用不着自己杀害自己的.

来自辞典例句