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extirpations

extirpations is the plural of extirpation.

Meaning of extirpation

Noun

extirpation (countable and uncountable, plural extirpations)

  1. The act of extirpating or uprooting.
    • it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 34

Questions about extirpations

What is extirpations the plural of?
Extirpations is the plural of extirpation.

Words near extirpations in the dictionary

  1. extirpating
  2. extirpation
  3. extirpationism
  4. extirpationist
  5. extirpationists
  6. extirpations
  7. extirpative
  8. extirpator
  9. extirpators
  10. extirpatory
  11. extirped

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