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Webster 1828 Edition
Extirpate
EX'TIRPATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To pull or pluck up by the roots; to root out; to eradicate; to destroy totally; as, to extirpate weeds or noxious plants from a field.2.
To eradicate; to root out; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate error or heresy; to extirpate a sect.3.
In surgery, to cut out; to cut off; to eat out; to remove; as, to extirpate a wen.Definition 2024
extirpate
extirpate
English
Verb
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.
Synonyms
- (to pull up by the roots): uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinate
- (to destroy completely): annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate
- (to surgically remove): excise
- See also Wikisaurus:destroy
Related terms
Translations
to pull up by the roots
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to destroy completely
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to surgically remove
External links
- extirpate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- extirpate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911