exterminator
pronunciation
How to pronounce exterminator in British English:
UK [eks'tɜ:mɪˌneɪtə]
How to pronounce exterminator in American English:
US [ɪkˈstɚməˌnetɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
Word Origin
- exterminator (n.)
- c. 1400, "an angel who expells (people from a country)," from Late Latin exterminator, from past participle stem of Latin exterminare (see exterminate). As a substance for ridding a place of rats, etc., by 1848; as a person whose job it is to do this, by 1938.
Example
- 1. Be careful when you use the exterminator .
- 2. I 've found my profession . I 'm an exterminator .
- 3. The exterminator 's here . He brings death clouds that will destroy us all .
- 4. Never mind the terminator here comes the exterminator , lets blast some bugs .
- 5. Unfortunately the exterminator didn 't know that .