1. Remove, destroy or wipe out completely
   "The regime tried to extirpate all opposition";
   - uproot, eradicate, root out, eliminate
    
2. Pull up by or as if by the roots
   "extirpate the vine that has spread all over the garden";
   - uproot, deracinate [formal], root out
    
3. (surgery) surgically remove (an organ)
   "The surgeon had to extirpate the diseased kidney"

Derived forms: extirpated, extirpates, extirpating

Type of: destroy, destruct, displace, move, remove, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], take, take away, uncreate [literary], withdraw

Encyclopedia: Extirpate