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

1. transitive 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.
2. verb. surgically remove (an organ)
3. verb. pull up by or as if by the roots

   "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"

   Synonyms: deracinate, uproot

4. verb. destroy completely, as if down to the roots "root out corruption"

   "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"

   Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, uproot

Synonyms

deracinate, uproot, eradicate, exterminate

Common word forms

extirpated, extirpates, extirpating

Words from these letters

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