extirp
English
Etymology
Compare French extirper.
Verb
extirp (third-person singular simple present extirps, present participle extirping, simple past and past participle extirped)
- (obsolete) To extirpate.
- Shakespeare
- It is impossible to extirp it quite, friar.
- Shakespeare
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for extirp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)