Usually means: Eliminate or destroy completely; eradicate.
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  1. extirpate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extirpate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extirpate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extirpate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extirpate: Vocabulary.com
  6. extirpate: Wordnik
  7. extirpate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extirpate: Wiktionary
  9. extirpate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extirpate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extirpate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Extirpate, extirpate: Dictionary.com
  13. Extirpate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Extirpate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. extirpate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. extirpate: Rhymezone
  17. Extirpate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. extirpate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. extirpate: Free Dictionary
  20. extirpate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. extirpate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. extirpate: Legal dictionary

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  1. extirpate: Encyclopedia

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  1. extirpate: Medical dictionary

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  1. extirpate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
verb:  (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate,
verb:  (biology) To cause to go extinct locally within a population, but not within a species or subspecies.
verb:  (transitive) To surgically remove.

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