Type of war in which the goal is the complete annihilation of a state, a people or an ethnic minority.
1 There follows a war of extermination with unconscionable cruelties on both sides.
2 A general war of extermination may sweep from Sonoma to San Diego.
3 These little pictures portray our war of extermination against the red man.
4 The collection of tithes became an impossibility without a war of extermination .
5 This was to be a war of extermination of one side or the other.
6 This shall be a war of extermination , depend upon it.
7 Since leaving South America we have heard that this war of extermination completely failed.
8 There is a strong feeling in my mind that this is a war of extermination .
9 You see, the Mexicans won't kill outright in their war of extermination of the Yaquis.
10 In fact, Philip had found this war of extermination too expensive for his exhausted treasury.
11 On both sides it was a war of extermination .
12 Only a war of extermination will serve your purpose.
13 An Indian war of extermination is a horrible possibility.
14 And he threatened a war of extermination if the Indians were employed in resisting the invasion.
15 Alexis resolved to combine Christian Europe, if possible, in a war of extermination against the Turks.
16 Another proposed to employ the sealers-menwho had waged a war of extermination with great success.
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