as in extermination
formal
a usually violent act in which something is damaged or destroyed or in which a person or animal is killed
The town had somehow escaped the depredations of enemy soldiers.
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Noun
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She’s credited with saving Hymenaeus from destruction during the war of Dionysus against the Indians.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
20 Jan. 2025 -
Israel’s ultimate war goal is the complete destruction of Hamas.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN,
20 Jan. 2025
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For example, the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger and the dodo were driven to extinction by human activities.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
13 Jan. 2025
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What does all this have to do with life today, when big cats are headed toward extinction and meat comes on Styrofoam trays?—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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With dead-eyed thoroughness, their avatars kill around 100 characters a day — slaughters that simultaneously advance the siblings’ online progress and strengthen their real-life bond.—
Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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The events are loosely based on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which saw Mormon militiamen of the Utah Territorial Militia, or Nauvoo Legion, slaughter at least 120 members of the Baker-Fancher wagon train.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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Here’s everything to know about the real-life massacre that inspired the six-episode series — and how faithful the dramatization is to the historical event.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
13 Jan. 2025
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Moreover, although the 1921 report asserts that the massacre (then called a riot) was not the result of 'racial feeling,' perpetrators of the massacre overtly expressed and acted upon racial bias.—
Sabina Ghebremedhin,
ABC News,
11 Jan. 2025
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