extirper
French
verb
Definitions
- to uproot, extirpate (pull [a plant and its roots] out of the ground)
- (medicine) to remove, take out (e.g. an organ)
- (figuratively) to weed out, get rid of, eradicate (e.g. a problem or characteristic)
- to pull out, take out, whip out (remove something from e.g. a holder, pocket, holster etc.)
- to drag out, hoist out, lug out (remove someone, with difficulty, from a place)
- (reflexive) to pull oneself out (of somewhere)
- (colloquial) to fish out, make someone cough up (obtain e.g. information from someone)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exstirpō (uproot).
Origin
Latin
exstirpō
Gloss
uproot
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- extirp English
- extirpable English
- extirpate English
- extirper English
- exstirpatio Latin
- exstirpō Latin
- extirpar Spanish, Castilian
- extirpar Portuguese
- extirpar Catalan, Valencian