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extirpate

/ˈɛkstəpeɪt/
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verb

  • To clear an area of roots and stumps.
  • To pull up by the roots; uproot.
  • To destroy completely; to annihilate.

    "The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization."

  • To surgically remove.

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