extirpate

From Latin exstirpō (“uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstəpeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstɚpeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧tir‧pate

extirpate (third-person singular simple present extirpates, present participle extirpating, simple past and past participle extirpated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
2. (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
3. (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
4. (transitive) To surgically remove.

• (to pull up by the roots): uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinate
• (to destroy completely): annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate
• (to surgically remove): excise
• See also Thesaurus:destroy

• extirp
• extirpation
• extirpative
• extirpator

• extirpate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• extirpate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

extirpāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of extirpō