adj
Meaning 1
Extirpated
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
extirpate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛkstəpeɪt/
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General-American: /ˈɛkstɚpeɪt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Rooted out, extinct, utterly destroyed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To clear an area of roots and stumps.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To pull up by the roots; uproot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To destroy completely; to annihilate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, erase, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravage, ravel, remove, ruin, ruinate, stamp out, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe out, wipe off, wreck
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
Examples
- The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To surgically remove.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: excise
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
surgically remove (an organ)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
verb
Meaning 9
pull up by or as if by the roots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: uproot, deracinate, root out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: move, displace
Narrower terms: stub
verb
Meaning 10
destroy completely, as if down to the roots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted
- root out corruption
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: uproot, eradicate, root out, exterminate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: destroy, destruct
History
Etymology
The verb is first attested in 1538, the adjective in 1541; borrowed from Latin exstirpātus perfect passive participle of exstirpō (“to uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Doublet of extirp. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Across languages
Translations
69 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Assamese: উঘাল (ughal) — to pull up by the roots
- Assamese: উভাল (ubhal) — to pull up by the roots
- Bulgarian: изкореня́вам (izkorenjávam) — to pull up by the roots
- Catalan: extirpar — to pull up by the roots
- Dutch: ontwortelen — to pull up by the roots
- Estonian: juurima — to pull up by the roots
- Finnish: juuria — to pull up by the roots
- French: déraciner — to pull up by the roots
- French: extirper — to pull up by the roots
- German: mit den Wurzeln herausreißen — to pull up by the roots
- German: an den Wurzeln herausreißen — to pull up by the roots
- German: entwurzeln — to pull up by the roots
- Greek: ξεριζώνω (xerizóno) — to pull up by the roots
- Hungarian: gyökerestül kiirt — to pull up by the roots
- Ido: extirpar — to pull up by the roots
- Irish: stoith — to pull up by the roots
- Irish: baint ó fhréamh — to pull up by the roots
- Māori: ranga — to pull up by the roots
- Norwegian: rykke opp med roten — to pull up by the roots
- Polish: wykorzeniać — to pull up by the roots
- Polish: wykorzenić — to pull up by the roots
- Polish: wypleniać — to pull up by the roots
- Polish: wyplenić — to pull up by the roots
- Portuguese: extirpar — to pull up by the roots
- Romanian: dezrădăcina — to pull up by the roots
- Russian: искореня́ть (iskorenjátʹ) — to pull up by the roots
- Russian: искорени́ть (iskorenítʹ) — to pull up by the roots
- Russian: вырыва́ть с ко́рнем (vyryvátʹ s kórnem) — to pull up by the roots
- Russian: вы́рвать с ко́рнем (výrvatʹ s kórnem) — to pull up by the roots
- Russian: корчева́ть (korčevátʹ) — to pull up by the roots
- Russian: выкорчёвывать (vykorčóvyvatʹ) — to pull up by the roots
- Russian: вы́корчевать (výkorčevatʹ) — to pull up by the roots
- Spanish: extirpar — to pull up by the roots
- Spanish: descepar — to pull up by the roots
- Swedish: rycka upp med rötterna — to pull up by the roots
- Vietnamese: bứng — to pull up by the roots
- Vietnamese: nhổ rễ — to pull up by the roots
- Bulgarian: унищожа́вам (uništožávam) — to destroy completely
- Catalan: extirpar — to destroy completely
- Dutch: uitroeien — to destroy completely
- French: extirper — to destroy completely
- French: annihiler — to destroy completely
- German: ausrotten — to destroy completely
- German: austilgen — to destroy completely
- German: ausmerzen — to destroy completely
- German: auslöschen — to destroy completely
- Hungarian: kiirt — to destroy completely
- Hungarian: gyökerestül kiirt — to destroy completely
- Irish: léirscrios — to destroy completely
- Māori: whakamōtī — to destroy completely
- Polish: wypleniać — to destroy completely
- Polish: wyplenić — to destroy completely
- Portuguese: extirpar — to destroy completely
- Russian: искореня́ть (iskorenjátʹ) — to destroy completely
- Russian: искорени́ть (iskorenítʹ) — to destroy completely
- Spanish: extirpar — to destroy completely
- Spanish: descepar — to destroy completely
- Ottoman Turkish: افنا ایتمك (ifna etmek) — to destroy completely
- Ottoman Turkish: قازیمق (kazımak) — to destroy completely
- Catalan: extirpar — to surgically remove
- Finnish: poistaa — to surgically remove
- French: extirper — to surgically remove
- Greek: εκριζώνω (ekrizóno) — to surgically remove
- Polish: usuwać — to surgically remove
- Polish: usunąć — to surgically remove
- Portuguese: extirpar — to surgically remove
- Russian: выреза́ть (vyrezátʹ) — to surgically remove
- Russian: вы́резать (výrezatʹ) — to surgically remove
- Spanish: extirpar — to surgically remove