Extirpating

verb

verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of extirpate form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

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"The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility."

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