Extirpate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTIRPATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pull out by the roots
• eradicate or destroy completely
• destroy utterly
• 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.
• destroy completely, as if down to the roots
• pull up by or as if by the roots
• surgically remove (an organ)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to destroy completely; wipe out; to pull up by the root

Words related to EXTIRPATE

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Words that contain EXTIRPATE

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How to use EXTIRPATE in a sentence

• The Emperors desired, if possible, to extirpate Christianity without shedding blood.
• It is believed, therefore, that this right as applicable to piracy would not only extirpate the trade, but prove altogether innocent in its operation.
• The following Lines in that glorious Commission which is given the Messiah to extirpate the Host of Rebel Angels, is drawn from a Sublime Passage in the Psalms.
• Slaves will then be without employment, and, of course, without the means of comfortable subsistence, which will reduce their numbers, and finally extirpate them.
• The latter was never sufficiently strong to over throw and extirpate idolatry in the Roman Empire.
• There was a meeting of Convocation in February, 1512, to consider how to extirpate the Lollard heresy which was reviving.
• Without irreparable injury to ourselves we cannot attempt to eradicate it or extirpate it.
• He was particularly terrible to the senate and nobility, the whole body of whom he frequently threatened to extirpate entirely.
• Extirpate them, ye good sons of India, wherever you find them, without mercy, and with them their spies and secret agents.
• Alexius Comnenus vainly tried to extirpate the heresy by savage persecution.
• He resolved to extirpate the popular party root and branch.
• Then and there it was that brigandage has flourished, and has been difficult to extirpate.
• He looked on himself, and was looked on by others, as the appointed champion to extirpate heresy and reestablish the papal power throughout Europe.
• For this reason I advise, as a remedy against the great evil from which you suffer, that you carefully search your dwellings for idolatry, and extirpate it from them.
• Egyptian idolatry abhorred by Persians, who sought to extirpate it, 610-m.
• Persians abhorred Egyptian idolatry and sought to extirpate it, 610-m.
• It is not the Business of Virtue to extirpate the Affections of the Mind, but to regulate them.
• In theory and practice they regard them as wild beasts whom it is lawful to extirpate.
• We no longer consider ourselves morally bound to denounce and extirpate heretics and witches, still less to observe fasts and sacred days.
• The leaders, seeing the mischiefs of dissension, would employ all their art to extirpate that evil.
• As soon as the Mogul received this intelligence, he threatened to send a mighty army to extirpate the English from all their settlements upon the Indian coast.
• Hordes of savages were soon afterwards ascertained to have crossed the Ohio, with the purpose to extirpate these germs of social establishments in Kentucky.
• The success there achieved was so conspicuous that two thousand years of essential superfluity have not availed to extirpate the art.
• And where it attempts to extirpate vice, it does it rather by making it ridiculous, than by making men shun it for the love of virtue.
• No one was more earnestly bent on the conquest of such thoughts, but he wished to extirpate them, not merely to crowd them out.
• This will render the population question more acute, especially as the diseases which we hope to extirpate are the commonest cause both of sterility and of infant mortality.
• For all this is necessary, and is undertaken in order to direct our energies to the defense of the islands, and to try to extirpate the enemy from them.

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