Should dogs be exterminated?

[Egbert]

Should dogs be exterminated?

[Aeson]

I always wondered why "exterminated" didn't mean to end a termination. Like exgirlfriend is not your girlfriend anymore.

[Egbert]

I have never wondered about that myself, however it is a very good question. I may spend the rest of my life trying to figure it out, now that you mention it.

[Sava]

1540s, "drive away," from L. exterminatus, pp. of exterminare "drive out, expel, drive beyond boundaries," also, in L.L. "destroy," from phrase ex termine "beyond the boundary," from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + termine, abl. of termen "boundary, limit, end" (see terminus). Meaning "destroy utterly" is from 1640s, a sense found in equivalent words in French and in the Vulgate; earlier in this sense was extermine (mid-15c.). Related: Exterminated; exterminating.

here

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=exterminate

[Aeson]

Some things are better left unanswered...

[The Mad Monk]

Just the loose ones.

[molly bloom]

Should dogs be exterminated?

New dog wardens: