Definition of "extirpate"

extirpate

/ˈɛkstəpeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present extirpates, present participle extirpating, simple past and past participle extirpated
1. (transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
2. (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
3. (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate,
  Quotations
  But you are not Hercules; nor able to extirpate the Evils of others: nor even Theſeus, to extirpate the Evils of Attica. Extirpate your own then.
  1758, Epictetus, translated by Elizabeth Carter, All the Works of Epictetus Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments‎, The Discourses of Epictetus, book II, chapter XVI, page 172
  The simple object was to expel the natives, and to extirpate the Catholic religion.
  1870, M[ary] F[rances] Cusack, chapter XIX, in The Student's Manual of Irish History‎, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 309
  They [steam trains] are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness.
  2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 56
4. (biology) To cause to go extinct locally within a population, but not within a species or subspecies.
5. (transitive) To surgically remove.