transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To destroy totally; kill off.

transitive verb. To render absent or nonexistent: synonym: eliminate.

transitive verb. To pull up by the roots.

transitive verb. To remove by surgery.

To pull up by the roots; root out; eradicate; get rid of; expel; destroy totally: as, to extirpate weeds or noxious plants from a field; to extirpate cancer or a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

Synonyms To uproot, exterminate, abolish, annihilate.

transitive verb. To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly

verb. To clear an area of roots and stumps.

verb. To pull up by the roots; uproot.

verb. To destroy completely; to annihilate.

verb. To surgically remove.

verb. destroy completely, as if down to the roots

verb. surgically remove (an organ)

verb. pull up by or as if by the roots

"The English colonists were thus fulfilling their responsibility to protect as they proceeded to "extirpate" and "exterminate" the natives, in their words -- and for their own good, their honored successors explained."

plant  

destroy  destruct  remove  take  take away  

abate  abolish  abolish  abscind  amputate  

extirpated  extirpates  extirpating