extirpate
/ˈɛkstəpeɪt//ˈɛkstɚpeɪt/
verb
- 1
To clear an area of roots and stumps.
- 2
To pull up by the roots; uproot.
- 3
To 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
To surgically remove.
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