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say it: EK-stur-payt
extirpate is a verb meaning "destroy completely, as if down to the roots". It carries 3 recorded senses.
destroy completely, as if down to the roots
“the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted”
“root out corruption”
pull up by or as if by the roots
“uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for extirpate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.