extripate

Verb

extirpate (third-person singular simple present extirpates, present participle extirpating, simple past and past participle extirpated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
2. (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.

   Synonyms:

   uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinate

3. (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
   • But you are not Hercules; nor able to extirpate the Evils of others: nor even Theſeus, to extirpate the Evils of Attica. Extirpate your own then.1758, Epictetus, translated by Elizabeth Carter, All the Works of Epictetus Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments, The...

   Synonyms:

   annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto

4. To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.
   • The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.
5. (transitive) To surgically remove.

   Synonyms:

   excise

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