extirper

English

Etymology

extirp +‎ -er

Noun

extirper (plural extirpers)

1. (obsolete) An extirpator.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “extirper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exstirpō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/

Verb

extirper

1. to uproot, extirpate (pull [a plant and its roots] out of the ground)
2. (medicine) to remove, take out (e.g. an organ)
3. (figuratively) to weed out, get rid of, eradicate (e.g. a problem or characteristic)
4. to pull out, take out, whip out (remove something from e.g. a holder, pocket, holster etc.)
5. to drag out, hoist out, lug out (remove someone, with difficulty, from a place)
6. (reflexive) to pull oneself out (of somewhere)

   Il s'extirpe du bar pour fumer une clope.

   He drags himself out of the bar to smoke a ciggy.

7. (colloquial) to fish out, make someone cough up (obtain e.g. information from someone)

Conjugation

Conjugation of extirper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	extirper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	extirpant /ɛk.stiʁ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		extirpé /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	extirpe /ɛk.stiʁp/	extirpes /ɛk.stiʁp/	extirpe /ɛk.stiʁp/	extirpons /ɛk.stiʁ.pɔ̃/	extirpez /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/	extirpent /ɛk.stiʁp/
	imperfect	extirpais /ɛk.stiʁ.pɛ/	extirpais /ɛk.stiʁ.pɛ/	extirpait /ɛk.stiʁ.pɛ/	extirpions /ɛk.stiʁ.pjɔ̃/	extirpiez /ɛk.stiʁ.pje/	extirpaient /ɛk.stiʁ.pɛ/
	past historic2	extirpai /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/	extirpas /ɛk.stiʁ.pa/	extirpa /ɛk.stiʁ.pa/	extirpâmes /ɛk.stiʁ.pam/	extirpâtes /ɛk.stiʁ.pat/	extirpèrent /ɛk.stiʁ.pɛʁ/
	future	extirperai /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁe/	extirperas /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁa/	extirpera /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁa/	extirperons /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɔ̃/	extirperez /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁe/	extirperont /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	extirperais /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɛ/	extirperais /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɛ/	extirperait /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɛ/	extirperions /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	extirperiez /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁje/	extirperaient /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	extirpe /ɛk.stiʁp/	extirpes /ɛk.stiʁp/	extirpe /ɛk.stiʁp/	extirpions /ɛk.stiʁ.pjɔ̃/	extirpiez /ɛk.stiʁ.pje/	extirpent /ɛk.stiʁp/
	imperfect2	extirpasse /ɛk.stiʁ.pas/	extirpasses /ɛk.stiʁ.pas/	extirpât /ɛk.stiʁ.pa/	extirpassions /ɛk.stiʁ.pa.sjɔ̃/	extirpassiez /ɛk.stiʁ.pa.sje/	extirpassent /ɛk.stiʁ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	extirpe /ɛk.stiʁp/	—	extirpons /ɛk.stiʁ.pɔ̃/	extirpez /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “extirper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) extirper

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of extirpō