What does «exterminio» mean in Spanish?
- Complete or almost complete destruction, annihilation.
Examples of use in Spanish: "exterminio de un enemigo".
- Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.
Examples of use in Spanish: "el casi exterminio de las manadas de búfalos".
"crimen de exterminio".
"campo de exterminio".
- Annihilation, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group; more appropriately, genocide.
Examples of use in Spanish: "el exterminio de la población judía por parte de los nazis".
- Elimination of pests, insects or parasites through pest control methods.
Examples of use in Spanish: "exterminio de insectos".
"el exterminio de termitas y cucarachas".
"nos dedicamos al exterminio de ratas".
- (campos o centros de exterminio) Concentration camps built by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust in World War II to systematically murder millions of Jews. Other groups were also killed in the death camps, including Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Roma. Some Nazi camps, such as Auschwitz and Majdanek, had a dual purpose before the end of the war in 1945: extermination by poison gas, but also by extreme labor under starvation conditions.
- (crimen de exterminio) Intentional, generalized or systematic imposition of living conditions, such as deprivation of access to food or medicine, among others, with the objective of causing destruction to a part of a population. It is a crime against humanity. If it specifically seeks to annihilate an ethnic, racial, religious or national group, it is a crime of genocide. Extermination is punishable under Article 7 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, which is competent to prosecute it.