Hypertext Webster Gateway: "extirpation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Extirpation \Ex`tir*pa"tion\, n. [L. extirpatio, exstirpatio:
cf. F. extirpation.]
The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being
extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the
extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a
race of men, of heresy.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
extirpation
n 1: surgical removal of a body part or tissue [syn: {ablation},
{cutting out}, {excision}]
2: the act of pulling up or out; uprooting [syn: {deracination}]
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