extirpate

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extirpate

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1 a : to destroy completely ~> wipe out

b : to pull up by the root

2 : to cut out by surgery



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• "The spread of piracy has been treated more as a nuisance to be endured rather than as a deadly cancer that must be extirpated for the sake of both Somalia and the rule of law." - Tara Helfman and Dan O'Shea, Commentary, February 2011

• "Over the past decades, the reptiles have reclaimed much of the native range from which they'd been extirpated." - Shannon Tompkins, The Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2016

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