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   Ex·tir·pate

   /ˈekstərˌpāt/

   

   verb

   • 1. root out and destroy completely: "the use of every legal measure to extirpate this horrible evil from the land"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as extirpation): from Latin exstirpare, from ex- ‘out’ + stirps ‘a stem’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. extirpation noun
   • 2. extirpator noun

   Scrabble Points: 18

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   • X

     8

   • T

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   • A

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