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    [Verb]  | "ex*tir*pate" | \ ˈek-stər-ˌpāt \


    1: to destroy completely : wipe out

    2: to pull up by the root

    3: to cut out by surgery


    Origin: 1535 ;

     Latin exstirpatus, past participle of exstirpare, from ex- + stirp-, stirps trunk, root;

    [Verb]  | "extirpates" 


    1: to destroy all traces of;


      * e.g., " ... the triumph of modern medicine in extirpating certain diseases "



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    [Verb]  | "extirpate" 


    1: to destroy all traces of;


      * e.g., " ... the triumph of modern medicine in extirpating certain diseases "



    •  Antonyms : 

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