Dictionary Entry
extirpate
extirpate is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.
- 2verb
surgically remove (an organ)
- 3verb
pull up by or as if by the roots
"uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
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- 4verb
destroy completely, as if down to the roots "root out corruption"
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
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