extirpate
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin exstirpō (“‘uproot’”) < ex- (“‘out of’”) + stirps (“‘the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk’”)
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to extirpate (third-person singular simple present extirpates, present participle extirpating, simple past and past participle extirpated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
- (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
- (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
- (transitive) To surgically remove.
[edit] Synonyms
- (to pull up by the roots): extricate, uproot
- (to destroy completely): annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate
- (to surgically remove): excise
- See also Wikisaurus:destroy
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[edit] Translations
to pull up by the roots
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[edit] External links
- extirpate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- extirpate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
