V-T To exterminate a group of people or animals means to kill all of them. 消灭
A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats.
花了大气力来消灭这些老鼠。
extermination N-UNCOUNT 消灭
...the extermination of hundreds of thousands of their brethren.
…他们几十万同胞的灭绝。
Once regarded as big money spinners to resurrect the television industry, a multitude of pay TV companies have been exterminated by the fierce competition.
付费电视公司曾经一度被誉为能使电视业恢复青春的印钞机，但无数这样的公司已被激烈的竞争消灭。
But as the big woods of the Mississippi Delta were chopped down, the woodpecker-with its distinctive tooting call and double knock-was slowly exterminated.
但随着密西西比三角洲的森林被砍伐殆尽，这种能制造出独特的“嘟嘟，嘟嘟”啄木声的啄木鸟已经渐渐灭绝了。
Having missed their opportunity 9m years earlier, man's ancestors and their kin now grabbed it, moving into the niches vacated by their recently exterminated Cousins.
人类祖先在九百万年前错失良机之后，现在他们与其亲族们没有再次错过，他们入住到一些特殊的栖息地，这都是他们最近灭绝的堂兄堂弟留下的。
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