as in to eradicate
to destroy all traces of
the triumph of modern medicine in extirpating certain diseases
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Recent Examples of extirpate
The species flourished after its chief predator, the grizzly, was extirpated there, in the early twentieth century.
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Before then, gray wolves had been extirpated from the state since the 1920s.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Nov. 2024
Phil Beasley, Plantation The last straw was Oct. 7
Hamas must be extirpated from Gaza.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
The way to extirpate this bias is by realizing that the concept of death is not an all-or-nothing matter, but rather a spectrum—something that comes in degrees.
—Susana Monsó, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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President Donald Trump vowed to eradicate any signs of former President Joe Biden in his Department of Justice on Tuesday night.—
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Agency supporters told Democratic senators earlier this week that the shutdown — along with other administration steps, including revoking USAID’s lease on its Washington headquarters — was really about eradicating USAID before lawmakers or the courts could stop it.—
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This year's storms won't erase looming drought worries across the entire southwestern U.S., experts fear.—
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This relevant and poignant wake-up call warns that one generation can erase a great nation.—
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But Reagan faced a Democratic House of Representatives that objected, and by 1984, the GOP had abandoned its call for abolishing the department.—
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Moreover, the president has intertwined his calls to abolish the $268 billion bureaucracy with attempts to leverage it to advance his own agenda.—
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Many other belongings from his tomb are believed to have been relocated due to the flooding that destroyed it.—
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Baldoni countersued, accusing Lively, Reynolds and Sloane of seeking to destroy his career.—
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“Extirpate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extirpate. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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