exterminating
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Exterminate \Ex*ter"mi*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exterminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating.] [L. exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.]
1.To drive out or away; to expel. [1913 Webster]
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion.— Barrow.[1913 Webster]
2.To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. [1913 Webster]
To explode and exterminate rank atheism.— Bentley.[1913 Webster]
3.(Math.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.] [1913 Webster]