Usually means: Eliminating or destroying completely; eradicating.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word Extirpating:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. extirpating: Merriam-Webster
  2. extirpating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. extirpating: Vocabulary.com
  4. extirpating: Wordnik
  5. extirpating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. extirpating: Wiktionary
  7. Extirpating, extirpating: Dictionary.com
  8. Extirpating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Extirpating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. extirpating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. extirpating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. extirpating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extirpating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extirpating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extirpating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extirpate)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
verb:  (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate,
verb:  (biology) To cause to go extinct locally within a population, but not within a species or subspecies.
verb:  (transitive) To surgically remove.
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