extirpate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: extirpate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for extirpate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
extirpate v destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" Synonym(s): uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" Synonym(s): uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out surgically remove (an organ)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extirpate \Ex"tirpate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extirpated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extirpating}.] [L. extirpatus, exstirpatus, p. p. of extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock, stem, root.] To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate* weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy. Syn: To eradicate; root out; destroy; exterminate; annihilate; extinguish.