extirpate
verb (used with object)
to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
extirpator
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a word derived from
extirpate.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Newman says, that undue credit has been claimed for Christianity as the foe and extirpator of slavery.
From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers
Ceaselessly the Popes persecuted them, and when at last in Sigismund of Hungary an ardent extirpator visited the land there came about a terrible result, which has made Bosnia so different from other Serbian territories.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein
These were cut, as if with a punch, by means of the teeth of the extirpator.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various
