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Extirpation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of extirpating or uprooting. countable, uncountable

    "it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices"

  2. 2
    the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence wordnet
  3. 3
    surgical removal of a body part or tissue wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exstirpātiō.

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