Extirpating
verb
verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of extirpate form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"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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