EXTERMINATE

exterminate|extermin. Exterminate, or Extermin, v.t. to root out, to drive

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Ex‐ter″mi‐nate (?), 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. 1. To drive out or away; to expel.
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow. 2. 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.
To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley. 3. 3. (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities.