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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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
This solution, applied daily, preserves and beautifies the teeth, extirpates all tartarous adhesion, produces a pearl-like whiteness, arrests decay, and induces a healthy action in the gums.
From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley
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
It destroys and in the end extirpates the evil feeling.
From The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Constance Garnett
The exercise of the religious nature is the gymnastics of the soul, and the disuse of the religious nature extirpates its capacity.
From Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody
