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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