资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Extirpate \Ex"tir*pate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Extirpated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extirpating}.] [L. extirpatus,
   exstirpatus, p. p. of extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips
   stock, stem, root.]
   To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate,
   literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to
   extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect;
   to extirpate error or heresy.

   Syn: To eradicate; root out; destroy; exterminate;
        annihilate; extinguish.