extirpate
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(obsolete, transitive)To clear an area of roots and stumps.
- 2.
(transitive)To pull up by the roots; uproot.
Đồng nghĩa: uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinate
- 3.
(transitive)To destroy completely; to annihilate.
Đồng nghĩa: annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravage, ravel, remove, ruin, ruinate, stamp out, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe out, wipe off, wreck
- 4.
(biology) To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.
The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.
- 5.
(transitive)To surgically remove.
Đồng nghĩa: excise
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(obsolete)(as a participle) Extirpated
- 2.
(obsolete)(as a participial adjective) Rooted out, extinct, utterly destroyed.
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The verb is first attested in 1538, the adjective in 1541; Latin exstirpātus perfect passive participle of exstirpō (to uproot), from ex- + stirps + -ō (see -ate and -ate). extirp. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.