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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
extirpate
v 1: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges
of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: {uproot},
{eradicate}, {exterminate}]
2: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has
spread all over the garden" [syn: {uproot}, {deracinate},
{root out}, {pull up}]
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