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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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..
Weed :: Weed (v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate..
Stub :: Stub (v. t.) To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots..
Extirpator :: Extirpator (n.) One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.
Eradicate :: Eradicate (v. t.) To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors..
Spay :: Spay (v. t.) To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal)..
Outroot :: Outroot (v. t.) 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..
Root :: Root (v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away..
Deracinate :: Deracinate (v. t.) To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
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..
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..
Exscind :: Exscind (v. t.) To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate.
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..
Extirp :: Extirp (v. t.) To extirpate.
Inextirpable :: Inextirpable (a.) Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.
Extirpable :: Extirpable (a.) Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant..
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..
Extirpated :: Extirpated (imp. & p. p.) of Extirpat.
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