Associations to the word «Extirpate»
Noun
Verb
Wiktionary
EXTIRPATE, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
EXTIRPATE, verb. (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
EXTIRPATE, verb. (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
EXTIRPATE, verb. (transitive) To surgically remove.
Dictionary definition
EXTIRPATE, verb. Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption".
EXTIRPATE, verb. Pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden".
EXTIRPATE, verb. Surgically remove (an organ).
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.