Extirpation
[,ɛkstɚ'peʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence.
整理:佩吉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
校對:凯尔西
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Eradication, extermination, annihilation, destruction, extinction, excision, abolition.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The true remedy for them is not extirpation but prevention. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- By the original law of nations, war and extirpation was the punishment of injury. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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