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2 definitions found 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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