verb🔗ShareTo clear an area of roots and stumps."The farmer extirpated the remaining tree stumps from the field to prepare it for planting new crops. "environmentagricultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo pull up by the roots; uproot."The gardener extirpated the weeds from the flowerbeds. "environmentbiologyplantecologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo destroy completely; to annihilate."The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization."disasterenvironmentecologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo surgically remove."The dentist carefully extirpated the nerve from the infected tooth. "medicineanatomyorganbodyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Share(of a species) Locally extinct (though alive elsewhere)."The gray wolf is extirpated from Yellowstone National Park, though it thrives in other regions of North America. "environmentbiologyecologyanimalorganismnatureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
