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Exterminator   /ɪkstˈərmənˌeɪtər/   Listen
Exterminator

noun
1.
Someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects).  Synonyms: eradicator, terminator.





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"Exterminator" Quotes from Famous Books



... Popes. Paris took the lead in opposition to the new Evangel by its Academic decrees of 1521. And when Major, in 1530, republished his Commentary, he not only omitted from it his Disputations against Papal absolutism, but dedicated it to Archbishop James Beaton as the 'supplanter' and 'exterminator' of Lutheranism, and, above all, as the judge who, amid the murmurings of many, had recently[5] and righteously ...
— John Knox • A. Taylor Innes
... have wandered too far afield. A living speck, swarming in the paunch of a grub, tells us of the brigandage of life. How well it understands its trade as an exterminator! In vain does the Crioceris-larva take refuge in an unassailable casket: its executioner makes herself so small that she ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre


Words linked to "Exterminator" :   terminator, killer, eradicator, slayer, exterminate


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