Extirpation
11extirpation — extirpate ► VERB ▪ search out and destroy completely. DERIVATIVES extirpation noun extirpator noun. ORIGIN Latin exstirpare, from stirps a stem …
12extirpation — noun see extirpate …
13extirpation — See extirpate. * * * …
14extirpation — Partial or complete removal of an organ or diseased tissue. [L. extirpo, to root out, fr. stirps, a stalk, root] * * * ex·tir·pa·tion .ek stər pā shən n complete excision or surgical destruction of a body part ex·tir·pate ek stər .pāt vt, pat·ed; …
15extirpation — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. extermination, extinction, annihilation; see destruction 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Utter destruction: annihilation, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, liquidation, obliteration. See CRIMES,… …
16extirpation — n. destruction, eradication; uprooting …
17extirpation — n. Eradication, uprooting, extermination, annihilation, destruction, extinction, excision, abolition, rooting out or up …
18extirpation — n 1. obliteration, extermination, ex punction, eradication, annihilation, discreation, aboli tion, abolishment; devastation, total destruction, demolition, ravagement, desolation, ruin, ruination; effacement, wipe out, removal, liquidation,… …
19extirpation — ex·tir·pa·tion …
20extirpation — n. the complete surgical removal of tissue, an organ, or a growth …