extirpation

Other forms of extirpation

plural

extirpations·

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.

Questions about extirpation

What does extirpation mean?

extirpation means "surgical removal of a body part or tissue". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in extirpation?

extirpation has 5 syllables: ex-tir-pa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for extirpation?

Close synonyms include ablation, cutting out, excision, excision, deracination. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extirpation a common word?

extirpation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.