- past participle of exterminate.
- past tense form of exterminate.
exterminated
Example Sentences
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Within about 50 years, the crocodiles had been completely exterminated.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
Humans exterminated the passenger pigeon, the great auk and the Carolina parakeet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate helped bring Nazi war criminals to justice, and documented the deportations and deaths of 80,000 Jews from France exterminated in the Holocaust.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2023
She heads a group of mostly women who are working hive by hive to relocate bees that would be exterminated if they remained in Mexico’s crowded capital city.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2023
Those historical inequalities have cast long shadows on the modern world, because the literate societies with metal tools have conquered or exterminated the other societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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