Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Exterminate

Exterminate , transitive verb

[Latin exterminatus, past participle of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.]

1.
To drive out or away; to expel.
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. — Barrow
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.
(Mathematics) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [Rare]