Extirpation
[,ɛkstɚ'peʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence.
Checker: Peggy--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Eradication, extermination, annihilation, destruction, extinction, excision, abolition.
Edited by Caleb
Examples
- The true remedy for them is not extirpation but prevention. Plato. The Republic.
- It was called the Black Death, and it came nearer to the extirpation of mankind than any other evil has ever done. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By the original law of nations, war and extirpation was the punishment of injury. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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