(verb) to destroy completely; wipe out / (verb) to pull up by the root / (verb) to cut out by surgery
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
quite poetic
rather than extirpating the external causes of pain
on Buddhism
sexism is an attitude reinforced rather than extirpated during one's university years