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extirpates

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  1. To clear an area of roots and stumps.
  2. To pull up by the roots; uproot.
  3. 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.”
  4. To surgically remove.

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