extirpate
英 ['ekstɜːpeɪt]
- vt. 使连根拔起；灭绝，破除
英英释意
- 1. destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
- "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
- 2. pull up by or as if by the roots;
- "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
- 3. surgically remove (an organ)