extermination
Complete wiping out
Extermination is the complete destruction or elimination of something, especially a population.
The word typically describes killing on a mass scale: the extermination of pests, the extermination of indigenous peoples, the extermination of Jews in Nazi death camps.
The landlord called for extermination of the roaches.
The clinical tone can mask horror when applied to humans.
Utter, complete destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
- extirpationComplete destruction or removal
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
decimation · wipeout · elimination · genocide · massacre · slaughter · holocaust · pogrom
Disinfection via airborne chemicals
- pesticideAgent destroying harmful organisms
- insecticideToxic agent targeting pests
- rodenticideSubstance lethal to rats
- poisonHarmful ingested substance
trap · bait · infestation · vermin · pest · rodent · insect · termite
Act of elimination
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- banishmentForced removal from place
- ejectionForced removal from somewhere
- evacuationRemoval from danger
clearance · disposal · abolition · suppression · uprooting · displacement · deportation · exile
annihilation
Utter, complete destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
- extirpationComplete destruction or removal
liquidation · decimation · wipeout · elimination · genocide · massacre · slaughter · holocaust · pogrom · purge
fumigation
Disinfection via airborne chemicals
- pesticideAgent destroying harmful organisms
- insecticideToxic agent targeting pests
- rodenticideSubstance lethal to rats
poison · trap · bait · infestation · vermin · pest · rodent · insect · termite · cockroach
riddance
Act of elimination
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- banishmentForced removal from place
- ejectionForced removal from somewhere
evacuation · clearance · disposal · abolition · suppression · uprooting · displacement · deportation · exile · ousting
- pest controlinsecticide, rat trap, pesticide, mousetrap, pesticides
- destructiondestruction, destroying, demolishing, devastation, ruination
- eliminationremoval, exclusion, eradication, obliteration, expulsion
- carnagebloodshed, bloodbath, massacre, slaughter, butchery
- persecutionHolocaust, pogrom, genocide, pogroms, ethnic cleansing
- atrocitiesHolocaust, genocide, massacre, massacres, ethnic cleansing
exterminationpreservation
Maintaining something's condition
survival · salvation · protection · rescue · conservation
exterminationpropagation
Act of spreading widely
proliferation · multiplication · repopulation · increase · colonization
exterminationcreation
Making something exist
construction · building · generation · reconstruction · re-creation
- extermination campsFacilities for mass murder
terminal, determination, terminate, exterminate, interminable, indeterminate, exterminator, determinable