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Meanings of war of annihilation in English

Spanish
guerra de exterminio

Type of war in which the goal is the complete annihilation of a state, a people or an ethnic minority.

guerra de exterminio
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Examples for "war of extermination"
Examples for "war of extermination"
1
There follows a war of extermination with unconscionable cruelties on both sides.
All souls' rising
2
A general war of extermination may sweep from Sonoma to San Diego.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
3
These little pictures portray our war of extermination against the red man.
Banzai! by Parabellum
4
The collection of tithes became an impossibility without a war of extermination.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders
5
This was to be a war of extermination of one side or the other.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
Usage of war of annihilation in English
1
This is a war of annihilation.'
Hitler 1936 - 1945: Nemesis
2
The ideological objective of eradicating 'Jewish-Bolshevism' was central, not peripheral, to what had been deliberately designed as a ' war of annihilation'.
Hitler 1936 - 1945: Nemesis
3
Our war was pretty desperate but theirs was a war of annihilation -victory or death was not an empty slogan.
Broken Homes
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