exterminate

• vt.一掃する；根絶する

元-、外へ。-すなわち、境界を越えて追い出す、根絶やしにする。

exterminate (v.)

1540s, "drive away," from Latin exterminatus, past participle of exterminare "drive out, expel, put aside, drive beyond boundaries," also, in Late Latin "destroy," from phrase ex termine "beyond the boundary," from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + termine, ablative of termen "boundary, limit, end" (see terminus).

Meaning "destroy utterly" is from 1640s in English, a sense found in equivalent words in French and in the Vulgate; earlier in this sense was extermine (mid-15c.). Related: Exterminated; exterminating.

1. A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats.

ネズミを殺すのに力を入れた。

2.Some people exterminate garden insects by spraying poison the plants.

植物に毒剤を吹きかけて庭の昆虫を殺す人もいる。

3.It is necessary to exterminate the post at the sawmill.

製材所の端にある警戒所を取り出さなければなりません。

4.This spray will exterminate the termites.

このスプレーはシロアリを退治することができる。

5.Vermin don 't have to exterminate themselves.

虫の巣は自分で自分を殺す必要はありません。