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Meanings of extirpate in English

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exterminar
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exterminar
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exterminar

To destroy completely leaving no trace.

        exterminar
        Usage of extirpate in English
        1
        He who would extirpate a terrible disease must not fear the knife.'
        Lord Kilgobbin
        2
        I extirpate you from my life; I erase you from my memory.
        The sonderberg case
        3
        Grant us to extirpate these impious Mahometans, and to overturn their empire.
        The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the ...
        4
        The Whigs seem determined to extirpate the Tories, and the Tories the Whigs.
        The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 / From 162...
        5
        The true way is to discover and to extirpate the germs.
        Harvard Classics Volume 28 / Essays English and American
        6
        Alexius Comnenus vainly tried to extirpate the heresy by savage persecution.
        Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
        7
        Aided by these he sought to extinguish liberty, and extirpate the Protestant faith.
        Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
        8
        Spain had no intention to concede, but was resolved to extirpate.
        The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 30: 1579-80
        9
        Invent not a lie against Allah, lest He extirpate you by some punishment.
        Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
        10
        To make amends for his adultery, he concluded to extirpate heretics.
        Women of Modern France
        11
        We must simply extirpate the scoundrels.' Extirpate is all very well-butwhat then?
        Under Western Eyes
        12
        How could one extirpate man's bad nature implanted within him at his origin?
        The Religion of the Samurai / A Study of Zen Philosophy and Disc...
        13
        Without irreparable injury to ourselves we cannot attempt to eradicate it or extirpate it.
        The Pivot of Civilization
        14
        Their object was to extirpate every white man, woman, and child, in the island.
        Tales and Novels — Volume 02 / Popular Tales
        15
        You are not Hercules, to extirpate the evils of others.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
        16
        Kings still promised at coronation faithfully to extirpate heretical sects.
        A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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