Extirpate Definition & Meaning
extirpate
- verb
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
- surgically remove (an organ)
Words that rhyme with extirpate
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