extirpate
verb (used with object)
to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
extirpates
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present tense formof extirpate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Spiritual sympathy is a lesser mercy than that forethought which anticipates and extirpates the causes of suffering.
From The Principles Of Secularism by George Jacob Holyoake
I think that the intellect and moral sentiment are unanimous; and that, though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.
From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revolution extirpates kingship in the king, aristocracy in the noble, despotism in the soldier, superstition in the priest, barbarity in the judge, in a word whatever is tyranny in whatever is tyrant.
From Studies in Literature by John Morley
It destroys and in the end extirpates the evil feeling.
From The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Constance Garnett
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
