English to English
extirpate
('/E/kst/@/r,p/eI/t
)
verb (v)
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots(verb.creation)source: wordnet30
- pull up by or as if by the roots(verb.contact)source: wordnet30
- surgically remove (an organ)(verb.change)source: wordnet30
- To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.(verb)source: webster1913