extirpate

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verb

To destroy all traces of: abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, kill¹, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root¹ (out or up), rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out. Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to. See help/harm/harmless, make/unmake.

v

Definition: destroy; uproot
Antonyms: help, leave alone

IN BRIEF: To destroy. Also: to pull up by the roots.

Their job was to extirpate all of the weeds in the garden.

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Complete removal or eradication of an organ or tissue.

For a list of words related to extirpate, see:

• Violent Actions - extirpate: root out, eradicate, or expel

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See words rhyming with "extirpate."

  See crossword solutions for the clue Extirpate.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - fjerne, bortoperere

Nederlands (Dutch)
totaal vernietigen, ontwortelen, chirurgisch verwijderen

Français (French)
v. tr. - extirper

Deutsch (German)
v. - ausrotten

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - ξεριζώνω

Italiano (Italian)
estirpare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - extirpar, erradicar

Русский (Russian)
уничтожать, истреблять, изжить

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - extirpar, erradicar, exterminar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - utplåna, utrota

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
消灭, 毁灭, 根除

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 消滅, 毀滅, 根除

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 근절시키다, 절제하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 根こそぎにする, 根絶する, 摘出する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يمحو, يقتلع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮עקר, השמיד‬

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