Sekirov Dictionary

extirpate

UK /ˈɛkstəpeɪt/US /ˈɛkstɚpeɪt/

verb 5
adjective 2
forms 5

verb5

To pull up by the roots; uproot.
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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
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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.
To surgically remove.
(no longer used) To clear an area of roots and stumps.

adjective2

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(no longer used) Extirpated
- It is profitable […] to haue all occasions of sedicion […] to be extirpate. — 1541
(no longer used) Rooted out, extinct, utterly destroyed.

forms

extirpated · extirpating · extirpates · more extirpate · most extirpate

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