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extirpate

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extirpate /ˈɛkstəːpeɪt/

▶verb destroy completely; eradicate.

– derivatives
extirpation noun,
extirpator noun.

– origin ME: from L. exstirpare, from ex- ‘out’ + stirps ‘a stem’.

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