Word Meanings - EXTERMINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Elimination. (more info) 1. The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

Related words: (words related to EXTERMINATION)

• FIELD
  The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
• EXCISION
  The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication. (more info) 1. The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction. Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision.
• ELIMINATION
  the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. (more info) 1. The act of expelling or throwing off;
• FIELDING
  The act of playing as a fielder.
• TOTALIS
  The total. I look on nothing but totalis. B. Jonson.
• FIELDY
  Open, like a field. Wyclif.
• EXTERMINATORY
  Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." Burke.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• TOTALIZATOR
  A machine for registering and indicating the number and nature of bets made on horse races, as in Australia and South Africa. Called also totalizer.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• DESTRUCTIONIST
  One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley. (more info) 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy
• FIELDED
  Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak.
• TOTALIZER
  See TOTALIZATOR
• TOTALIZATION
  Act of totalizing, or state of being totalized.
• TOTALITY
  1. The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse. 2. The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. Buckle. The totality of a sentence or passage. Coleridge.
• FIELDEN
  Consisting of fields. The fielden country also and plains. Holland.
• EXTERMINATION
  Elimination. (more info) 1. The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
• DESTRUCTION
  1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation. The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. Esth. ix. 5. 'Tis safer to be that
• EXTERMINATE
  To eliminate, as unknown quantities. (more info) abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, 1. To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow. 2. To destroy utterly; to cut
• ERADICATION
  1. The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction. 2. The state of being plucked up by the roots.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• INFIELD
  To inclose, as a field.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• TEETOTALLY
  Entirely; totally.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• HAYFIELD
  A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper.
• SELF-DESTRUCTION
  The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.
• CORNFIELD
  A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.