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extirpate en · ADJ

Etymology

The verb is first attested in 1538, the adjective in 1541; borrowed from Latin exstirpātus perfect passive participle of exstirpō (“to uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Doublet of extirp. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

Meanings

  1. (as a participle, obsolete) Extirpated
    • It is profitable […] to haue all occasions of sedicion […] to be extirpate. 1541, Thomas Elyot, Image of Governance:
  2. (as a participial adjective, obsolete) Rooted out, extinct, utterly destroyed.

Forms

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more extirpate Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most extirpate Degree=Sup lexicographic

wikipedia: Early Modern English

extirpate en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɛkstəpeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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  • /ˈɛkstɚpeɪt/ (General-American)

Etymology

The verb is first attested in 1538, the adjective in 1541; borrowed from Latin exstirpātus perfect passive participle of exstirpō (“to uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Doublet of extirp. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
  2. (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
  3. (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
    • They [steam trains] are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 56:
    • But you are not Hercules; nor able to extirpate the Evils of others: nor even Theſeus, to extirpate the Evils of Attica. Extirpate your own then. 1758, Epictetus, translated by Elizabeth Carter, All the Works of Epictetus Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments, The Discourses of Epictetus, book II, chapter XVI, page 172:
    • The simple object was to expel the natives, and to extirpate the Catholic religion. 1870, M[ary] F[rances] Cusack, chapter XIX, in The Student's Manual of Irish History, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 309:
  4. To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.
    • The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.
  5. (transitive) To surgically remove.

Forms

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extirpated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
extirpated Tense=Past lexicographic
extirpates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
extirpating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

extirpative · extirp · extirpator · extirpation

Synonyms

blotto · fordo · raze · nuke · pulverize · overturn · bewreck · overthrow · decompose · dissolve · ravel · dash · unexist · excise · extirpate · liquidate · disperse · unmake · destroy · wreck · ruin · remove · aerosolize · race · exterminate · jazz · uproot · annihilate · annihilate · blot out · destroy · devastate · eradicate · demolish · ravage · fuck · obliterate · harry · lay waste · deracinate · total · eradicate · eliminate · exterminate · subvert · extricate · desolate · erase · wipe off · unbreed · atomize · ruinate · pull down · eradicate · level · wipe out · stamp out · diffuse · disintegrate · waste · benothing · uproot · extinguish

Translations (69)

ca extirpar (to surgically remove) · pt extirpar (to pull up by the roots) · pt extirpar (to destroy completely) · nl ontwortelen (to pull up by the roots) · fr extirper (to pull up by the roots) · ru вырыва́ть с ко́рнем (to pull up by the roots) · ca extirpar (to destroy completely) · as উভাল (to pull up by the roots) · vi bứng (to pull up by the roots) · ga stoith (to pull up by the roots) · nl uitroeien (to destroy completely) · pl wyplenić (to pull up by the roots) · sv rycka upp med rötterna (to pull up by the roots) · ru вы́рвать с ко́рнем (to pull up by the roots) · es extirpar (to destroy completely) · pl usuwać (to surgically remove) · de ausmerzen (to destroy completely) · ota افنا ایتمك (to destroy completely) · bg изкореня́вам (to pull up by the roots) · fr annihiler (to destroy completely) · de an den Wurzeln herausreißen (to pull up by the roots) · ru искорени́ть (to pull up by the roots) · pl usunąć (to surgically remove) · fi juuria (to pull up by the roots) · ota قازیمق (to destroy completely) · de austilgen (to destroy completely) · ca extirpar (to pull up by the roots) · mi whakamōtī (to destroy completely) · ga léirscrios (to destroy completely) · fr extirper (to surgically remove) · bg унищожа́вам (to destroy completely) · pt extirpar (to surgically remove) · pl wypleniać (to destroy completely) · ga baint ó fhréamh (to pull up by the roots) · fr déraciner (to pull up by the roots) · vi nhổ rễ (to pull up by the roots) · ro dezrădăcina (to pull up by the roots) · es descepar (to destroy completely) · ru искореня́ть (to pull up by the roots) · es descepar (to pull up by the roots) · fr extirper (to destroy completely) · et juurima (to pull up by the roots) · fi poistaa (to surgically remove) · ru выреза́ть (to surgically remove) · hu gyökerestül kiirt (to pull up by the roots) · de mit den Wurzeln herausreißen (to pull up by the roots) · hu gyökerestül kiirt (to destroy completely) · ru вы́корчевать (to pull up by the roots) · el ξεριζώνω (to pull up by the roots) · de ausrotten (to destroy completely) · pl wykorzenić (to pull up by the roots) · pl wyplenić (to destroy completely) · as উঘাল (to pull up by the roots) · de auslöschen (to destroy completely) · pl wykorzeniać (to pull up by the roots) · pl wypleniać (to pull up by the roots) · no rykke opp med roten (to pull up by the roots) · ru выкорчёвывать (to pull up by the roots) · ru искореня́ть (to destroy completely) · de entwurzeln (to pull up by the roots) · ru вы́резать (to surgically remove) · hu kiirt (to destroy completely) · el εκριζώνω (to surgically remove) · mi ranga (to pull up by the roots) · ru корчева́ть (to pull up by the roots) · es extirpar (to surgically remove) · ru искорени́ть (to destroy completely) · io extirpar (to pull up by the roots) · es extirpar (to pull up by the roots)

wikipedia: Early Modern English