extirpate
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Etymology
From Latin exstirpō (“uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛkstəpeɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛkstɚpeɪt/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: ex‧tir‧pate
Verb
extirpate (third-person singular simple present extirpates, present participle extirpating, simple past and past participle extirpated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
- (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
- Synonyms: uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinate
- (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate,
- Synonyms: annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate; see also Thesaurus:destroy
- 1758, Epictetus, translated by Elizabeth Carter, All the Works of Epictetus Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments, The Discourses of Epictetus, book II, chapter XVI, page 172:
- But you are not Hercules; nor able to extirpate the Evils of others: nor even Theſeus, to extirpate the Evils of Attica. Extirpate your own then.
- 1870, M[ary] F[rances] Cusack, chapter XIX, in The Student's Manual of Irish History, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 309:
- The simple object was to expel the natives, and to extirpate the Catholic religion.
- 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 56:
- They [steam trains] are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness.
- (biology) To cause to go extinct locally within a population, but not within a species or subspecies.
- The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.
- (transitive) To surgically remove.
- Synonym: excise
Related terms
Translations
to pull up by the roots
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to destroy completely
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to surgically remove
Further reading
- “extirpate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “extirpate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Verb
extirpāte
Verb
extirpate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of extirpar combined with te
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