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Verb extirpate has 3 senses
- uproot, eradicate, extirpate, exterminate - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
--1 is one way to destroy, destruct
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out - pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
--2 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- extirpate - surgically remove (an organ)
--3 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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