extirpate

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To clear an area of roots and stumps.
2. (transitive)To pull up by the roots; uproot.
3. (transitive)To destroy completely; to annihilate.

   “But you are not Hercules; nor able to extirpate the Evils of others: nor even Theſeus, to extirpate the Evils of Attica. Extirpate your own then.”

   “The simple object was to expel the natives, and to extirpate the Catholic religion.”

   “They [steam trains] are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness.”

4. To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.

   “The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.”

5. (transitive)To surgically remove.

adj

1. (obsolete)Extirpated

   “It is profitable […] to haue all occasions of sedicion […] to be extirpate.”

2. (obsolete)Rooted out, extinct, utterly destroyed.