EXTIRPATE Copy link • EXTIRPATERoot out (PROP.), Vid: IMPROPR., exstirpare: delere: exstinguere: excidere: thoroughly, utterly, alicujus rei radices evellere et extrahere penitus; omnes alicujus rei stirpes ejicere; aliquid funditus tollere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) exstirpare et funditus tollere (e.g., superstition; the last also of faults, passions, etc.); e natura rerum evellere (annihilate): to extirpate a nation, gentem penitus excidere: gentem ad internecionem interimere; his brother’s male offspring, stirpem fratris virilem interimere; a family, *domum vacuam facere: stirpem interimere: domum cum stirpibus eruere (after Verg., Georg., 2, 209); the drones, universorum fucorum genus ad occidionem perducere; all human feeling in anybody’s mind, omnem humanitatem ex animo alicujus exstirpare.