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extirpate
UK /ˈɛkstəpeɪt/ US /ˈɛkstɚpeɪt/
verb 5adj 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
able, evil, necessary, own
VERB + EXTIRPATE
tries
EXTIRPATE + NOUN
catholic, evils, religion
PREP.
in
ADV.
then
Definitions
verb
1
To clear an area of roots and stumps.
2
To pull up by the roots; uproot.
3
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.
The simple object was to expel the natives, and to extirpate the Catholic religion.
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
To surgically remove.
adj
1
Extirpated
It is profitable […] to haue all occasions of sedicion […] to be extirpate.
2
Rooted out, extinct, utterly destroyed.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
verb — pull up by or as if by the roots
verb — destroy completely, as if down to the roots
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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.
Wiktionary02
The simple object was to expel the natives, and to extirpate the Catholic religion.
Wiktionary03
They [steam trains] are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness.
Wiktionary04
It is profitable […] to haue all occasions of sedicion […] to be extirpate.
Wiktionary05
This thing is necessary to extirpate the evil of the world.
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