Hyphenation of exterminate

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word exterminate? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

ex-ter-mi-nate

Definitions of exterminate:

1.
Kill en masse
Kill on a large scale Kill many Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews
2.
Gypsies
3.
Communists
4.
And homosexuals of Europe
5.
Destroy completely, as if down to the roots
The vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted root out corruption

Synonyms of exterminate:

verbkill off, kill
verb uproot, eradicate, extirpate, destroy, destruct

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