1. To utterly remove, to destroy, or to exterminate something completely: Technically, to extirpate something like a weed is to pull it out by the roots and to eliminate it.
2. Etymology: from Latin extirparum, "uprooted"; from ex-, "out" + stirps, "root". © ALL rights are reserved.

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