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Exterminate vs. Extirpate — What's the Difference?

Exterminate vs. Extirpate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Exterminate and Extirpate

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Exterminate

To get rid of by destroying completely
Exterminated the termites that were weakening the wall.

Extirpate

Eradicate or destroy completely
Timber wolves were extirpated from New England more than a century ago

Exterminate

(transitive) To kill all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.

Extirpate

To destroy totally; kill off
An effort to reintroduce wildlife that had been extirpated from the region.

Exterminate

To bring a definite end to; finish completely.
The public school failed to exterminate truancy.
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Extirpate

To render absent or nonexistent
"No society ... is devoid of ... religion, even those ... which have made deliberate attempts to extirpate it" (Roy A. Rappaport).

Exterminate

To drive out or away; to expel.
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion.

Extirpate

To pull up by the roots.

Exterminate

To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
To explode and exterminate rank atheism.

Extirpate

To remove by surgery.

Exterminate

To eliminate, as unknown quantities.

Extirpate

To clear an area of roots and stumps.

Exterminate

Kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many;
Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe

Extirpate

(transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.

Exterminate

Destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
The vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted

Extirpate

(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate, to cause to go extinct locally.
The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.

Extirpate

(transitive) To surgically remove.

Extirpate

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.

Extirpate

Destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
The vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted

Extirpate

Pull up by or as if by the roots;
Uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden

Extirpate

Surgically remove (an organ)

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