verb Download 🔗Share To clear an area of roots and stumps. Examples : "The farmer extirpated the remaining tree stumps from the field to prepare it for planting new crops. " environment agriculture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To pull up by the roots; uproot. Examples : "The gardener extirpated the weeds from the flowerbeds. " environment biology plant ecology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To destroy completely; to annihilate. Examples : "The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization." disaster environment ecology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To surgically remove. Examples : "The dentist carefully extirpated the nerve from the infected tooth. " medicine anatomy organ body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share (of a species) Locally extinct (though alive elsewhere). Examples : "The gray wolf is extirpated from Yellowstone National Park, though it thrives in other regions of North America. " environment biology ecology animal organism nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
