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extirpation
[ ek-ster-pey-shuhn ]
noun
- Biology, Ecology. (of a species) the state or condition of having become locally or regionally extinct:
Forest elephants in Central Africa have experienced a 65 percent reduction in their populations, and extirpation is imminent if the poaching rate persists.
- Medicine/Medical. the removal or excision of a tumor, organ, etc.:
Minor controllable bleeding was the only noted complication associated with lymph node extirpation in two of the thirty-nine performed procedures.
Word History and Origins
Origin of extirpation1
Example Sentences
It was a contest for extirpation, and ere it ended the flower of the English and the chivalry of the Indians were laid low.
Hundreds of the ablest judges were selected for the extirpation of this crime.
They may be operated on by means of incision or extirpation.
Margaret herself had been purposely kept in ignorance of the plan for the extirpation of the Protestants.
What prolific sources of disease are not those mineral and vegetable poisons, that have been introduced for its extirpation!
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