extirpate
pronunciation
How to pronounce extirpate in British English:
UK [ˈekstəpeɪt]
How to pronounce extirpate in American English:
US [ˈekstərpeɪt]
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- Verb:
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- surgically remove (an organ)
Word Origin
- extirpate (v.)
- "root up, root out," 1530s, usually figurative, from Latin extirpatus/exstirpatus, past participle of extirpare/exstirpare "root out, eradicate, pull up by the roots" (see extirpation). Related: Extirpated; extirpating.
Example
- 1. The military rulers have tried to extirpate all opposition .
- 2. St. augustine knew how to use severity to extirpate the heresy .
- 3. Then the philosopher continues to say : now I want to know how to extirpate these weeds .
- 4. The third one says : " strewing with lime can extirpate all the weeds . "
- 5. The country must extirpate the evils of drug abuse .