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extirpate
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As a verb, extirpate means pull up by the roots.
Meanings of extirpate
4 meaningsverb
To pull up by the roots; uproot.
To destroy completely; to annihilate, to cause to go extinct locally.
“The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.”
To surgically remove.
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteTo clear an area of roots and stumps.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
verb: destroy completely, as if down to the roots
verb: pull up by or as if by the roots
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