Exterminated vs Exterminates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between exterminated and exterminates

is that exterminated is (exterminate) while exterminates is .

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To kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests.

We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.

(figuratively) To bring a definite end to, finish completely. A rather strong word that implies that what has been ended won't resurface.

Even a mass birching at the public school failed to exterminate truancy.

* (to kill all) annihilate, eradicate, extermine, uproot * (to bring an end to) stamp out * See also

* extermination * exterminative * exterminator * exterminatory

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