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Extirp

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extirpateverb(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
exscindverb(chiefly medicine, surgery) To cut out.
extermineverb(transitive, obsolete or nonstandard) To exterminate (someone or something); to destroy.
outrootverb(transitive) To eradicate
extripateverbMisspelling of extirpate. [(transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.]
extrapateverbMisspelling of extirpate. [(transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.]
eradicateverb(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
stock upverb(intransitive) To acquire or increase stock or inventory. [(often) with on]
exectnoun(transitive, obsolete) To cut off or out.
expunctverbTo expunge or erase.
root outverb(transitive) To remove or abolish completely.
uprootverb(transitive) (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
expurgeverb(transitive, obsolete) To expurgate.
exenterateverb(transitive) To disembowel; to eviscerate.
stamp outverb(transitive) To get rid of totally; to eradicate.
extinct(figurative) (biology) Of an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants.
exhumateverbTo exhume; to disinter.
expulsenoun(obsolete) To expel, usually by means of violence.
exiccateverbObsolete form of exsiccate. [(transitive) To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.]
excideverb(transitive) To cut off.

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