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extirpateverb to destroy all traces ofthe triumph of modern medicine in extirpating certain diseases abolish, annihilate, black out, blot out, cancel, clean (up), efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, liquidate, obliterate, root (out), rub out, snuff (out), stamp (out), sweep (away), wipe out decimate, demolish, destroy, devastate, ravagedismantle, flatten, mow (down), raze, tear downruin, total, waste, wreckblast, blow up, dash, dynamite, smashatomize, consume, devour, dissolve, fragment, powder, pulverize, shatter, splinterdoom, finish, kill, kill off, terminate, zapcut, discard, ditch, eject, excise, expel, jettison, oust, throw out conserve, preserve, protect, savebuild, construct, create, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, shapefix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renew, renovate, repair, restore, revamp exterminate, extirpate, eradicate, uproot mean to effect the destruction or abolition of something.exterminate implies complete and immediate extinction by killing off all individuals.exterminate cockroaches extirpate implies extinction of a race, family, species, or sometimes an idea or doctrine by destruction or removal of its means of propagation.many species have been extirpated from the area eradicate implies the driving out or elimination of something that has established itself.a campaign to eradicate illiteracy uproot implies a forcible or violent removal and stresses displacement or dislodgment rather than immediate destruction.the war uprooted thousands in 1535 |