extirpate

英 ['ekst??pe?t]
  • vt. 使連根拔起；滅絕，破除

英英釋意

1. destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
2. pull up by or as if by the roots;
"uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
3. surgically remove (an organ)