extirpate
verb (used with object)
to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
had extirpated
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past perfectof extirpate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Tricomi reports eight cases in which he had extirpated the spleen for various morbid conditions, with a fortunate issue in all but one.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
It concluded its labours with prayers for the emperor who had extirpated idolatry and given peace to the Church.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
Her thought remained inarticulate, yet she began to understand that which she had striven so sternly to uproot, that which she had supposed she had extirpated, still remained with her.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
Such a triumph might have been justly claimed by the ally of Rome, if Wallia, before he repassed the Pyrenees, had extirpated the seeds of the Spanish war.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Henry Hart Milman
On Wahab observing that the next was Moses, with his rod, and the children of Israel; the emperor agreed that their country was of small extent, and that Moses had extirpated the ancient inhabitants.
