Extirpate

verb

/ˈɛkstəpeɪt/

Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.verbTo clear an area of roots and stumps.

2.verbTo pull up by the roots; uproot.

3.verbTo destroy completely; to annihilate.

"The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization."

4.verbTo surgically remove.

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