'Extirpate' definitions:
Definition of 'extirpate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" [syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate]
verb
Pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out]
verb
Surgically remove (an organ)
Definition of 'Extirpate'
From: GCIDE
- Extirpate \Ex"tir*pate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extirpated; p. pr. & vb. n. Extirpating.] [L. extirpatus, exstirpatus, p. p. of extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock, stem, root.] 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.
- Syn: To eradicate; root out; destroy; exterminate; annihilate; extinguish. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extirpate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- abolish,
- abscind,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- ban,
- bar,
- blot,
- bob,
- clip,
- crop,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- deracinate,
- dock,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- exterminate,
- extinguish,
- isolate,
- knock off,
- liquidate,
- lop,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- pare,
- peel,
- pick out,
- prune,
- purge,
- remove,
- root out,
- root up,
- rule out,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shear,
- stamp out,
- strike off,
- strip,
- strip off,
- sweep away,
- take off,
- take out,
- truncate,
- uproot,
- wipe out