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Extirpate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EX'TIRPATE, v.t. [L. extirpo; ex and stirps, root.]
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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" [syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate]
2: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out]
3: surgically remove (an organ)

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-pated; -pating) Etymology: Latin exstirpatus, past participle of exstirpare, from ex- + stirp-, stirps trunk, root Date: 1535 1. a. to destroy completely ; wipe out b. to pull up by the root 2. to cut out by surgery Synonyms: see exterminate • extirpation noun • extirpator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. root out; destroy completely. Derivatives: extirpation n. extirpator n. Etymology: L exstirpare exstirpat- (as EX-(1), stirps stem)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Extirpate Ex"tir*pate (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extirpated; p. pr. & vb. n. Extirpating.] [L. extirpatus, exstirpatus, p. p. of extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock, stem, root.] 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. Syn: To eradicate; root out; destroy; exterminate; annihilate; extinguish.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Eradicate, uproot, exterminate, annihilate, destroy, abolish, root out.

Moby Thesaurus

abate, abolish, abscind, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, blot, bob, clip, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, deracinate, dock, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, exterminate, extinguish, isolate, knock off, liquidate, lop, mutilate, nip, pare, peel, pick out, prune, purge, remove, root out, root up, rule out, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, sweep away, take off, take out, truncate, uproot, wipe out