extermination
noun
- eradication of a species caused directly or indirectly by human influence
- the process of causing to cease to exist
- act of killing on a large scale
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French extermination, itself a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exterminātiō.
- The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
“extermination of error or vice”
“extermination of weeds from a field”
- Elimination.