extermination

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Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إبادة (ʔibāda) — the act of exterminating
• Armenian: ոչնչացում (očʻnčʻacʻum) — the act of exterminating
• Danish: udrydning — the act of exterminating
• French: extermination — the act of exterminating
• German: Ausrottung — the act of exterminating
• German: Vernichtung — the act of exterminating
• Hebrew: השמדה — the act of exterminating
• Italian: sterminazione — the act of exterminating
• Italian: sterminio — the act of exterminating
• Ladino: eksterminasion — the act of exterminating
• Ladino: eksterminio — the act of exterminating
• Polish: eksterminacja — the act of exterminating
• Portuguese: exterminação — the act of exterminating
• Portuguese: extermínio — the act of exterminating
• Romanian: exterminare — the act of exterminating
• Romanian: exterminațiune — the act of exterminating
• Russian: уничтоже́ние (uničtožénije) — the act of exterminating
• Russian: истребле́ние (istreblénije) — the act of exterminating
• Spanish: exterminio — the act of exterminating
• Spanish: exterminación — the act of exterminating