参考词典中extirpate的常规释义:
基本释义
- vt. 消灭,根除,毁灭
词形变化
- 时 态:ex·tir·pat·ed, ex·tir·pat·ing, ex·tir·pates名 词:ex'tir·pa'tor形容词:ex'tir·pa'tive
英英解释
3个动词解释
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
[同] eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out, uproot
[例]- the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted
- root out corruption
- pull up by or as if by the roots
[同] deracinate, extirpate, root out, uproot
[例]- uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden
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- surgically remove (an organ)
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