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extirpate

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English

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WOTD – 14 November 2007

Etymology

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FromLatinexstirpō(“uproot”), fromex-(“out of”) +‎stirps(“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”).Doublet ofextirp.

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstəpeɪt/
(General American)IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstɚpeɪt/
Audio(US): (file)
Hyphenation:ex‧tir‧pate

Verb

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extirpate (third-person singular simple presentextirpates,present participleextirpating,simple past and past participleextirpated)

(transitive, obsolete) To clear an area ofroots andstumps.
(transitive) To pull up by the roots;uproot.
Synonyms:uproot,eradicate,extricate,deracinate
(transitive) Todestroy completely; toannihilate,
Synonyms:annihilate,destroy,eradicate,exterminate;see alsoThesaurus:destroy
- 1758,Epictetus, translated byElizabeth Carter,All the Works of Epictetus Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments‎^[1], The Discourses of Epictetus, book II, chapter XVI,page172:
  But you are notHercules; nor able toextirpate the Evils of others: nor evenTheſeus, toextirpate the Evils ofAttica.Extirpate your own then.
- 1870,M[ary] F[rances] Cusack, chapter XIX, inThe Student's Manual of Irish History‎^[2], London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,→OCLC, page309:
  The simple object was to expel the natives, and toextirpate the Catholic religion.
- 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, inRAIL, number951, page56:
  They [steam trains] are everything modern life tries toextirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness.
(biology) To cause to goextinct locally within a population, but not within a species or subspecies.
The cougar wasextirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.
(transitive) Tosurgically remove.
Synonym:excise