ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Extirpate

/ˈɛkstəpeɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps..

(transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
(transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
(biology) To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.
(transitive) To surgically remove.
(as a participle) Extirpated
(as a participial adjective) Rooted out, extinct, utterly destroyed.

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.

The simple object was to expel the natives, and to extirpate the Catholic religion.

They [steam trains] are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness.

The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.

It is profitable […] to haue all occasions of sedicion […] to be extirpate.

Choose a synonym only when it preserves the intended meaning, tone, and grammar of the full sentence.

Extirpate means (transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps..

Common synonyms include uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinate.

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

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.

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