Definition of extirpate

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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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Deracinate :: Deracinate (v. t.) To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
Stub :: Stub (v. t.) To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots..
Covenant :: Covenant (n.) An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the Solemn League and Covenant..
Extirp :: Extirp (v. t.) To extirpate.
Extirpate :: 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..
Extirpable :: Extirpable (a.) Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant..
Uproot :: Uproot (v. t.) To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate..
Extirpation :: Extirpation (n.) The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy..
Exterminate :: Exterminate (v. t.) To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice..
Moravian :: Moravian (n.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter..
Root :: Root (v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away..
Extirpated :: Extirpated (imp. & p. p.) of Extirpat.
Outroot :: Outroot (v. t.) To eradicate; to extirpate.
Spay :: Spay (v. t.) To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal)..
Extirpator :: Extirpator (n.) One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.
Exscind :: Exscind (v. t.) To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate.
Eradicate :: Eradicate (v. t.) To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors..
Weed :: Weed (v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate..
Inextirpable :: Inextirpable (a.) Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.
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