extirpates
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English
Definitions
verb
- To clear an area of roots and stumps.
- To pull up by the roots; uproot.
- To destroy completely; to annihilate.“The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.”
- To surgically remove.
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annihilatedestroyeradicateexterminatederacinateextricateuprootexciseroot outpull upravagesuprootseradicatingeradicationeradicatedeliminateseradicableeliminative