much of the plant and animal life has been extirpated to make way for Western civilization

The “hikes” did great damage, but they couldn’t themselves extirpate the rebellion.

the sentimentality it can never extirpate

this ubiquitous aestheticization is also a radical extirpation of the aesthetic

the forces of resistance in this world: pushed into marginal strips and under the ground, denied access to the world of the living, invisible, rolled over by tanks and helicopters? And yet impossible to fully extirpate.

rather than extirpating the external causes of pain

a movement which succeeded, very largely, in extirpating this insidious ‘violation’ of the Lord’s Day

sexism is an attitude reinforced rather than extirpated during one's university years