extirpate

1. (transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.obsoletetransitive

2. (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.Synonyms: uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinatetransitive

3. (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate,Examples: "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."Synonyms: annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomizetransitive

4. (biology) To cause to go extinct locally within a population, but not within a species or subspecies.Examples: "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.Synonyms: excisetransitive