exterminated
Adjective 1. Completely destroyed; wiped out; annihilated: Describes something that has been utterly eliminated or terminated, often referring to living things like pests, populations, or groups, but also applicable to abstract concepts like hope or opposition. * The exterminated pests will not return. * After the final battle, the rebel force was completely exterminated.
The adjective "exterminated" is used to describe a state of total and final destruction. It is a strong term implying a deliberate, systematic, or forceful act of removal. It is often used in contexts of pest control, warfare, genocide, or the complete eradication of a problem. * It typically follows a linking verb like was, were, has been, or had been. * It can be used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb).
- Attributive use (before a noun):
- The report documented the fate of the exterminated population.
- They surveyed the exterminated insect colony.
- Predicative use (after a linking verb):
- The invasive species has been exterminated from the island.
- If the infection spreads, the entire crop could be exterminated.
- Any hope of a peaceful resolution was exterminated by that act of aggression.
- "To be exterminated to the last man": An idiom emphasizing total annihilation, leaving not a single survivor.
- The ancient chronicle stated that the defending army was exterminated to the last man.
- Used in ecological or biological contexts to describe the local or global eradication of a species.
- The virus was so potent that the local rabbit population was nearly exterminated.
- Exterminate (verb): To destroy completely.
- The government launched a campaign to exterminate the rats.
- Extermination (noun): The act of exterminating; complete destruction.
- The extermination of the disease was a major medical achievement.
- Exterminator (noun): A person or thing that exterminates, especially a person whose job is to destroy pests.
- We had to call an exterminator for the termites.
- Annihilated
- Eradicated
- Obliterated
- Wiped out
- Extinguished (for abstract things like hope)
- Preserved
- Spared
- Saved
- Established
- Introduced
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destroyed completely
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