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Extirpate

/ˈɛkstəpeɪt/

To clear an area of roots and stumps.

📖 Definitions of "Extirpate"

verb
  1. 1

    To clear an area of roots and stumps.

  2. 2

    To pull up by the roots; uproot.

  3. 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. 4

    To surgically remove.

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