extirper
Meaning
- to uproot, extirpate (pull [a plant and its roots] out of the ground)
- to remove, take out (e.g. an organ)
- (figuratively) to weed out, get rid of, eradicate (e.g. a problem or characteristic)
- to pull out, take out, whip out (remove something from e.g. a holder, pocket, holster etc.)
- to drag out, hoist out, lug out (remove someone, with difficulty, from a place)
- (reflexive) to pull oneself out (of somewhere)
- (colloquial) to fish out, make someone cough up (obtain e.g. information from someone)
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɛk.stiʁ.pe/
Etymology
In summary
Borrowed from Latin exstirpāre. Doublet of étréper.
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