extirpate
ek ster payt
- v destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- v pull up by or as if by the roots
- v surgically remove (an organ)
- Some biblical commentators suggest that the circumcision was meant as much as a reminder to the Lord as to the Israelites, a kind of divine Post-it not to extirpate these people.
- Tito is seeking to extirpate Christianity in Yugoslavia .
- Little, after all, has been done since April 4, 1968, to extirpate racism or to clothe with reality King's dream of social justice.