Extirpate

Extirpate

/ˈekstərˌpāt/

verb

1) to pull up by the roots

“The wild oat is a very troublesome weed…and is perhaps the most difficult to be extirpated.”

— Encyclopædia Britannica 1771–1860

2) to destroy or exterminate

“To extirpate poverty, let us do on earth what is done in heaven.”

― Fred Foldvary (1946 – )

3) to remove surgically

“In the spring of 1826, Dr. M’Clellan, professor of Surgery in Jefferson College, successfully extirpated the whole parotid gland.”

― from Practice of Surgery, by Samuel Cooper

4) (in biology) to cause a local population to go extinct

“As a result of federal and state predator control efforts, gray wolves (Canis lupus) were officially extirpated from Yellowstone National Park.”

― National Park Service, from the Yellowstone Wildlife Program Records 1926