extirpate
verb (used with object)
to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
will extirpate
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future tenseof extirpate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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A few weeks ago the consul said, ‘I am stronger than the ayana, and I will extirpate him from the land.’
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
Or did the Khan of far Kashgar Tremble at the menace hot Of the Moolla of Kotal, "I will extirpate thee, pal Of my foe the Akhoond of Swat?"
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
True enlightenment will extirpate them, as well as other malaria.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
And he said, What thinkest thou, as to this man whom thou hast honoured above me? verily, if thou grant me respite until the day of resurrection, I will extirpate his offspring, except a few.
From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by George Sale
I repeat again, nothing but foreign conquest by a non-slaveholding power will extirpate slavery from the soil of Africa.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson
