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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extirpation \Ex`tir*pa"tion\, n. [L. extirpatio, exstirpatio:
cf F. extirpation.]
The act of extirpating or rooting out or the state of being
extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as the
extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a
race of men, of heresy.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
extirpation
n : surgical removal of a body part or tissue [syn: {ablation},
{cutting out}, {excision}]
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