英:['ekstɜ:peɪtə]
美:['ekstɜpeɪtə]
英:['ekstɜ:peɪtə]
美:['ekstɜpeɪtə]
verb
transitive verb
to destroy completely : wipe out
to pull up by the root
to cut out by surgery
Latin exstirpatus, past participle of exstirpare, from ex- + stirp-, stirps trunk, root
The first known use of extirpate was in 1535
extortverb
to get (as money) from a person by the use of force or threats
extortionnoun
the practice or crime of extorting (as money)
extortionnoun
the practice or crime of extorting (as money)
extortionateadjective
marked by extortion
extremely high : exorbitant
extortionate prices
extortionnoun
the practice or crime of extorting (as money)
extortverb
to get (as money) from a person by the use of force or threats
extolverb
to praise highly
extolverb
to praise highly
extirpateverb
to pull up by the roots
to destroy completely
1 the triumph of modern medicine in extirpating certain diseases
2 Their historic range included parts of Arizona, California, Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas, but jaguars were extirpated from the United States by the mid-20th century due to loss of habitat and hunting.
3 For some 50 years, the two main predators of moose--wolves and grizzlies--have been absent from the southern portion of the Yellowstone ecosystem, extirpated by humans.
4 In their wisdom, voters sought to extirpate Donald Trump from the White House in 2020 with surgical precision while leaving much of the Republican Party around him intact.
5 The building of Columbia Basin hydroelectric dams in the mid-20th century extirpated salmon from much of the upper Columbia River.
6 Today, however, there is very little evidence that timber rattlers are recolonizing dens from which they have been extirpated, even in undeveloped areas.
7 After wolves were extirpated from the ecosystem by hunting and trapping in the early 20th century, herbivores razed vegetation in wooded areas.
8 While black bears were nearly extirpated from Louisiana by the 1950s and 60s, the population has since rebounded.
9 The presence of wolves in Maine is hotly debated after they were extirpated from the Northeast due to centuries of bounties, habitat alteration and development.
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