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Extirpate   /ˈɛkstərpˌeɪt/   Listen
Extirpate

verb
(past & past part. extirpated; pres. part. extirpating)
1.
Destroy completely, as if down to the roots.  Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, root out, uproot.  "Root out corruption"
2.
Pull up by or as if by the roots.  Synonyms: deracinate, root out, uproot.
3.
Surgically remove (an organ).





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"Extirpate" Quotes from Famous Books



... beaten France with the help of the Protestants, and had imposed upon her as one condition of peace that she should make no allies within the Empire. In November of the same year he made an alliance with Paul III, receiving 200,000 ducats in support of his effort to extirpate the heresy. ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... have before us a most humiliating spectacle. If an effort is made to extirpate some form of sin that has taken audacious root in the soil of our moral life, one reform element or denomination fights with the other until the hoe is so broken that there is nothing left wherewith to dig out the miserable roots of the ...
— Life in a Thousand Worlds • William Shuler Harris
... home. Thus in Ireland I have known an outgoing tenant, in spite at his eviction, to sow wild oats in the fields which he was leaving. These, like the tares in the parable, ripening and seeding themselves before the crops in which they were mingled, it became next to impossible to extirpate."; ...
— Jesus the Christ - A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy - Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern • James Edward Talmage
... given way in order that he might come forward with new forces to extirpate all opposers, and exalt himself on their ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay
... the Municipal party, guided by Hebert and Chaumette, made their memorable attempt to extirpate Christianity in France. The doctrine of D'Holbach's supper-table had for a short space the arm of flesh and the sword of the temporal power on its side. It was the first appearance of dogmatic atheism in Europe as a political force. This makes ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) - Essay 1: Robespierre • John Morley


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