Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Exterminate has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
"Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
destroy completely, as if down to the roots
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
"root out corruption"
To kill all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.