extirpate

vt. 连根拔起, 消灭, 根除, 毁灭

发音

UK /ˈɛkstəpeɪt/
US /ˈɛkstɚpeɪt/

词形变化

extirpated extirpates 三单 extirpates extirpating extirpating 现在分词 extirpated 过去式 extirpated 过去分词 more extirpate 比较级 most extirpate 最高级

别名

extrapate extripate

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To clear an area of roots and stumps.

    废旧 及物
  2. 2.

    To pull up by the roots; uproot.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To destroy completely; to annihilate.

    及物
  4. 4.

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

    生物

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

  5. 5.

    To surgically remove.

    及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Extirpated

    废旧
  2. 2.

    Rooted out, extinct, utterly destroyed.

    废旧

词汇关系

动词

同义词 5

exterminate eradicate uproot root out deracinate

上位词 10

take move pull destroy remove withdraw destruct displace take away take off

下位词 1

stub

词源

The verb is first attested in 1538, the adjective in 1541; borrowed from Latin exstirpātus perfect passive participle of exstirpō (“to uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Doublet of extirp. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

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