exterminate

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exterminated p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating ] [ L. exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term. ] 1. To drive out or away; to expel. [ 1913 Webster ]

They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. [ 1913 Webster ]

To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]