extirpate
verb (used with object)
to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
has extirpated
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present perfectof extirpate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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To him is due the credit of creating that excellent institution the Guardia Civil, which has extirpated the banditti who infested the islands for so many years.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
The Sultan has extirpated the first, and now the second, and the Janissaries who had a somewhat similar origin, have, at Stamboul, experienced a similar fate.
From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by A. J. (Alexander John) Scott
Tiglath-Pileser, the illustrious warrior, he who holds the sceptre of Lashanan; he who has extirpated all wild animals.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
Yet the sharp conflict has usefully exercised the adverse powers of learning and genius; and each antagonist, alternately vanquished and victorious has extirpated some ancient errors, and established some interesting truths.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Henry Hart Milman
Worse than all—this folly is not satisfied until it has extirpated every moral sentiment, and blasted the soul.
From The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
