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Extirpate meaning
To clear an area of roots and stumps. | To pull up by the roots; uproot. | To destroy completely; to annihilate.
Example sentences (10)
We applaud and encourage the efforts to extirpate hatred on the basis of demographic characteristics wherever they occur.
But that this bestial Anlo-Ewe customary practice persists and has yet to be completely banned by a civilized and democratic Ghana, is what mischievous and hypocritical politicians like Mr. Bedzrah ought to be fighting to extirpate from Ghanaian society.
And within agricultural systems, hunting served to kill animals that prey upon domestic and wild animals or to attempt to extirpate animals seen by humans as competition for resources such as water or forage.
At the time, the Hudson's Bay Company sent word to trappers to extirpate all furbearers from the area in an effort to make the area less attractive to U.S. fur traders.
How many of us, it asks, foresee that electricity may extirpate the songbird?
In a letter to the people of Toulouse, undoubtedly written at the end of 1146, Bernard calls upon them to extirpate the last remnants of the heresy.
In its zeal to extirpate all traces of paganism, Christianity had cut itself off from the sources of life in nature and the female.
Such criticisms did not immediately extirpate what is called " psychologism ".
Supported by Rangers, and some Light Horse, who would I think effectively extirpate or remove that Vermine.
While the Narodnik movement was gaining momentum, the government quickly moved to extirpate it.