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Extricate vs. Extirpate — What's the Difference?

Extricate vs. Extirpate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Extricate and Extirpate

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Extricate

Extricate is the 12th album by post-punk band the Fall. It was made immediately after bandleader Mark E. Smith divorced guitarist Brix Smith.

Extirpate

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

Extricate

Free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty
He was trying to extricate himself from official duties

Extirpate

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

Extricate

To release from an entanglement or difficulty; disengage.
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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).

Extricate

(transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.
The firefighters had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.

Extirpate

To pull up by the roots.

Extricate

(rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity

Extirpate

To remove by surgery.

Extricate

To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc.
We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles.

Extirpate

To clear an area of roots and stumps.

Extricate

To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.

Extirpate

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

Extricate

Release from entanglement of difficulty;
I cannot extricate myself from this task

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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