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Word Meanings - EXTIRPATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

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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.

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  • DESTROYABLE
    Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
  • ABOLISHMENT
    The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
  • ABOLISH
    1. To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly. 2. To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. And with thy blood abolish
  • DERACINATE
    To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.
  • EXTINGUISH
    1. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right. A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish.
  • ABOLISHABLE
    Capable of being abolished.
  • EXCISEMAN
    An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty. Macaulay.
  • EXTIRPATE
    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;
  • QUENCHLESS
    Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury. "Once kindled, quenchless evermore." Byron. Syn. -- Inextinguishable; unquenchable. -- Quench"less*ly, adv. -- Quench"less*ness, n.
  • QUENCHABLE
    Capable of being quenched.
  • EXTINGUISHMENT
    The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation. Abbott. (more info) 1. The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment
  • EXCISE
    to cut out or off; ex out, off + caedere to cut; or, as the word was formerly written accise, fr. F. accise, LL. accisia, as if fr. L. accidere, accisum, to cut into; ad + caedere to cut; but prob. transformed fr. OF. assise, LL. assisa, assisia,
  • QUENCHER
    One who, or that which, quenches. Hammond.
  • DESTROY
    destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
  • EXTERMINATE
    To eliminate, as unknown quantities. (more info) abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, 1. To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow. 2. To destroy utterly; to cut
  • EXTINGUISHABLE
    Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed.
  • ERADICATE
    1. To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated. 2. To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors. This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment.
  • ANNIHILATE
    1. To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon. 2. To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing
  • DESTROYER
    One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
  • UPROOT
    To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate. Trees uprooted left their place. Dryden. At his command the uprooted hills retired. Milton.
  • SELF-DESTROYER
    One who destroys himself; a suicide.
  • TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
    A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
  • OUTQUENCH
    To quench entirely; to extinguish. "The candlelight outquenched." Spenser.
  • UNEXTINGUISHABLE
    Inextinguishable. -- Un`ex*tin"guish*a*bly, adv.
  • SELF-ANNIHILATED
    Annihilated by one's self.
  • INEXTINGUISHABLE
    Not capable of being extinguished; extinguishable; unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst, desire, feuds. "Inextinguishable rage." Milton.
  • INEXTINGUISHABLY
    So as not to be extinguished; in an inextinguishable manner.

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