Extirpate

Definition: Extirpate

Extirpate

Verb

1. Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted".

2. Pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "extirpate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Extirpate \Ex"tir*pate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Extirpated; present participle verb or noun Extirpating.]. (references)

Synonyms: Extirpate

Extraction

Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.

Inexistence

Annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate; destroy; take away; remove; (displace); obliterate, extirpate.

Crosswords: Extirpate

Albanian

asgjësoj (annihilate, decimate, destroy, devour, disannul, eliminate, exterminate, extinguish, fast, finish, finish off, frustrate, liquidate, overturn, rub out, scathe, shake down, slate, smite, stultify, trample down, unbuild, undo, unmake, uproot), çrrënjos (deracinate, eradicate, exterminate, uproot). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إقتلع (displace, extract, lift, plow, pluck, pull, root, take off, tear, tear out, weed out), ‏إستأصل (deracinate, enucleate, eradicate, excise, grub, root, stub), ‏أباد (annihilate, destroy, devour, eradicate, exterminate, mow, polish off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отстранявам (chase, cut away, eliminate, fend off, get away, keep away, obviate, preclude, push aside, push away, reject, remove, repel, send off, shake, sweep away, take out, weed out), изтребвам (annihilate, destroy, exterminate, extinguish), изкоренявам (deracinate, do away with, eradicate, exscind, exterminate, pluck off, pluck up, root out, root up, unroot, uproot, weed out). (various references)

Czech

vykořenit (eradicate, root, root up, unroot, uproot). (various references)

French

extirper. (various references)

German

ausrotten (exterminate, eradicate, wipe out). (various references)

Greek 

ξεριζώνω (uproot), εκρίζω (eradicate, grub, rout, stub, uproot). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשרש (uproot, weed, weed out), לעקור (eradicate, pluck, pull out, pull up, uproot, yank), להשמיד (annihilate, destroy, exterminate, lay waste, obliterate, scotch, smash, wipe out). (various references)

Hungarian

kipusztít (to eradicate, to exterminate, to obliterate), gyökerestõl kiírt. (various references)

Italian

estirpare (cutout, exterminate, root out, stub, uproot). (various references)

Pig Latin

extirpateay.(various references)

Portuguese

extirpar (enucleate, eradicate, excise, uproot, weed), exterminar (exterminate). (various references)

Romanian

extirpa (eradicate, excise, exscind, remove), extermina (blot, eradicate, exterminate), stinge (allay, annihilate, annul, appease, baste, choke, die, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, hush, quench, quit, silence, slack, slake, smother, wither), smulge (carry away, draw out, elicit, extort, pick off, pull, pull up, rend away, rend off, Rive, snatch, squeeze, tear out, uproot, worm out of, wrest, wring, yank), distruge (destroy), dezrãdãcina (deracinate, disroot, eradicate, exterminate, stub up, uproot). (various references)

Russian 

искоренять (exterminate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

iskoreniti (deracinate, destroy, do away with, eradicate, exterminate, root, root out, root up, unroot, uproot). (various references)

Spanish

extirpar (ablate, cut out, eradicate, excise, remove, root out, take out, wipe out), ser un extintor. (various references)

Swedish

utrota (eradicate, exterminate, root out), utplåna (delete, efface, obliterate), dra upp med rötterna. (various references)

Turkish

yok etmek (charm away, clear off, cut off, cut up, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, do away with, efface, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, liquidate, make away with, shatter, spirit away, spirit off, sponge out, stamp, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out), kesip atmak (lop, lop off), kökünden sökmek (disroot, eradicate, root away, root out, root up, stub, stub up, tear up, uproot), kökünden halletmek (clinch, eradicate), kökünü kazımak (kill off, root away, root out, root up, uproot), imha etmek (annihilate, cut off, demolish, destroy, dispose of, exterminate, throw down). (various references)

Ukrainian

виривати з коренем (deracinate, eradicate, outroot), викорінювати (deracinate, disroot, eradicate, outroot). (various references)

extirpavit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "extirpate": extirpated, extirpates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Extirpate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: extripate, sexvirate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ariette, expiate, iterate, partite, peatier, pettier, pretext.

-3 letters: attire, expert, expire, pattee, patter, pattie, pereia, petite, petter, pirate, pretax, ratite, repeat, retape, taxite.

-4 letters: aerie, apter, arete, atrip, axite, eater, etape, exert, expat, extra, irate, pater, peart, perea, peter, petit, petti, pieta, prate, retax, retia, retie, taper, tapir, tater, taxer, terai, tetra, titer.

+1 letter: expatriate, extirpated, extirpates.

+2 letters: expatriated, expatriates.

+3 letters: extrahepatic.

+4 letters: expectorating, expectoration, extrapolative, reexportation.

+5 letters: expectorations, extemporaneity, reexportations.