Canadian English Meaning of extirpate

extirpate

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Definitions and Meaning of extirpate in English

Wordnet

extirpate (v)

destroy completely, as if down to the roots

pull up by or as if by the roots

surgically remove (an organ)

Webster

extirpate (v. t.)

To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

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destroy completely, as if down to the roots, pull up by or as if by the roots, surgically remove (an organ)To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to erad

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