Word Finder - extirpating

definition

To clear an area of roots and stumps.

definition

To pull up by the roots; uproot.

synonyms

• deracinate
• eradicate
• extricate
• uproot

definition

To destroy completely; to annihilate.

example

The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.

synonyms

• annihilate
• destroy
• eradicate
• exterminate

definition

To surgically remove.

synonyms

• excise

Under this system the clover is ploughed up in the autumn, the nitrogen stored up in its roots being left in the soil for the nourishment of the cereal crop. The following summer the wheat crop is harvested, and an opportunity is afforded for extirpating weeds which in the three previous years have received little check.

Besides extirpating the various sects of Protestants, they also busied themselves with destroying the Greek Church in Lithuania.

This latter, indeed, appears to have been concocted by Gerald, an ardent champion of the English cause in Ireland, from genuine letters of Pope Alexander III., still preserved in the Black Book of the Exchequer, which do no more than commend King Henry for reducing the Irish to order and extirpating tantae abominationis spurcitiam, and exhort the Irish bishops and chiefs to be faithful to the king to whom they had sworn allegiance.'

Alyattes, the grandson of Ardys, finally succeeded in extirpating the Cimmerii, as well as in taking Smyrna, and thus providing his kingdom with a port.

These six kings reigned 198 years and 10 months, and all aimed at extirpating the Egyptians.