extirpate

英 ['ekstəpeɪt] 美 ['ekstərpeɪt]

• v. 根除；除尽；灭绝

英英释义

Verb:

1. destroy completely, as if down to the roots;

   "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
   "root out corruption"
   

2. pull up by or as if by the roots;

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

3. surgically remove (an organ)

经典引文

• Our antagonisms had become too deeply rooted for either of us to extirpate them.

  出自： D. Murphy

近反义词

【近义词】

• exterminate 消灭
• uproot 连根拔起
• eradicate 根除
• extract 摘录
• root out 根除
• deracinate 根除