Extirpation
[,ɛkstɚ'peʃən]
解释:
(n.) The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.
校对:凯尔西
同义词及近义词:
n. Eradication, extermination, annihilation, destruction, extinction, excision, abolition.
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例句:
- The true remedy for them is not extirpation but prevention. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- It was called the Black Death, and it came nearer to the extirpation of mankind than any other evil has ever done. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- By the original law of nations, war and extirpation was the punishment of injury. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
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