'extirpate' in How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States | Bookmarker

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(verb) to destroy completely; wipe out / (verb) to pull up by the root / (verb) to cut out by surgery

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

—p.97 by Daniel Immerwahr

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