extirpation
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stərˌpeɪt, ɪkˈstɜr verb (used with object), ex·tir·pat·ed, ex·tir·pat·ing.
1.
to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
2.
to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up: to extirpate an unwanted hair.
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extirpate (ˈɛkstəˌpeɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to remove or destroy completely |
| 2. | to pull up or out; uproot |
| 3. | to remove (an organ or part) surgically |
| [C16: from Latin exstirpāre to root out, from stirps root, stock] | |
| extir'pation | |
| —n | |
| 'extirpative | |
| —adj | |
| 'extirpator | |
| —n | |
| extirpate (ˈɛkstəˌpeɪt) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to remove or destroy completely |
| 2. | to pull up or out; uproot |
| 3. | to remove (an organ or part) surgically |
| [C16: from Latin exstirpāre to root out, from stirps root, stock] | |
| extir'pation | |
| —n | |
| 'extirpative | |
| —adj | |
| 'extirpator | |
| —n | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
extirpation
1520s, from L. extirpationem, from extirpare "root out," from ex- "out" + stirps (gen. stirpis) "a root, stock of a tree."
extirpate
1530s, usually figurative, from L. extirpat-/exstirpat-, pp. stem of extirpare/exstirpare (see extirpation). Related: Extirpated; extirpating.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
extirpation ex·tir·pa·tion (ěk'stər-pā'shən)
n.
The surgical removal of an organ, a part of an organ, or a diseased tissue.
ex'tir·pate' v.
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Example sentences
The extirpation of the infantile wishes is not at all the ideal aim of development.
There is no data showing a correlation, never mind causation, between spring temperatures and local extirpation.
For else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation.
By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury.
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