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Meanings of extirpate in English
Synonyms
Examples for "eradicate"
Examples for "eradicate"
1
The crisis in Zimbabwe is undermining international efforts to eradicate conflict diamonds.
2
Purpose of review: Interest has re-emerged in approaches to eradicate HIV infection.
3
New Zealanders are backing the Prime Minister's aim to eradicate terrorism online.
4
Aim to eradicate wild polio, clear the way for the vaccine-derived kind.
5
They can keep patients healthy for years, but never eradicate the virus.
1
As soon as we have that information, we'll know whom to exterminate.
2
Their sole and determined purpose was to exterminate Israel, kith and kin.
3
I think he'd exterminate all of Mankind if he had the chance.
4
To exterminate caterpillars: that is the true vocation of the Golden Gardener.
5
The marines arrive just in time to save them and exterminate natives.
1
You cannot uproot all of my work without tearing down every building.
2
This is home to Liz, and I don't want to uproot her.
3
Man is like a plant which perishes when the storms uproot it.
4
He would uproot the forest trees and tear the roofs from the houses.
5
They did not uproot one type of civilisation in order to plant another.
1
No one by taking thought, can deracinate the mental habits of, say, twenty years.
2
To deracinate Lowell was impossible, and it was for this very reason that he became so serviceable an international personage.
3
It is not too florid to argue that effective machinery to investigate and deracinate corruption is at the heart of a fair and functioning democracy.
4
He simply nodded, feeling quite deracinated by Toussaint's remark, as if he no longer belonged to any category.
5
It was frightening, deracinating.
1
Many believe greater transparency and accountability are needed to root out corruption.
2
I will root out every superstition in a circle of twenty miles.
3
Helen Pidd reports from Sofia on Bulgaria's efforts to root out corruption.
4
Most Popular Malian forces root out Islamists in northern town Posted Mar.
5
My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out.
Usage of extirpate in English
1
He who would extirpate a terrible disease must not fear the knife.'
2
I extirpate you from my life; I erase you from my memory.
3
Grant us to extirpate these impious Mahometans, and to overturn their empire.
4
The Whigs seem determined to extirpate the Tories, and the Tories the Whigs.
5
The true way is to discover and to extirpate the germs.
6
Alexius Comnenus vainly tried to extirpate the heresy by savage persecution.
7
Aided by these he sought to extinguish liberty, and extirpate the Protestant faith.
8
Spain had no intention to concede, but was resolved to extirpate.
9
Invent not a lie against Allah, lest He extirpate you by some punishment.
10
To make amends for his adultery, he concluded to extirpate heretics.
11
We must simply extirpate the scoundrels.' Extirpate is all very well-butwhat then?
12
How could one extirpate man's bad nature implanted within him at his origin?
13
Without irreparable injury to ourselves we cannot attempt to eradicate it or extirpate it.
14
Their object was to extirpate every white man, woman, and child, in the island.
15
You are not Hercules, to extirpate the evils of others.
16
Kings still promised at coronation faithfully to extirpate heretical sects.
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