EXTIRPATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does extirpate mean?
• EXTIRPATE (verb)
The verb EXTIRPATE has 3 senses:
1. destroy completely, as if down to the roots
2. pull up by or as if by the roots
3. surgically remove (an organ)
Familiarity information: EXTIRPATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• EXTIRPATE (verb)
Meaning:
Destroy completely, as if down to the roots
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
extirpate; root out; exterminate; eradicate; uproot
Context examples:
the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted / root out corruption
Hypernyms (to "extirpate" is one way to...):
destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Pull up by or as if by the roots
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
root out; deracinate; extirpate; uproot
Context example:
uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden
Hypernyms (to "extirpate" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "extirpate"):
stub (pull up (weeds) by their roots)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Surgically remove (an organ)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "extirpate" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Domain category:
surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
