extirpated
past simple and past participle ofextirpate
extirpate
verb[T]
formaluk/ˈek.stɜː.peɪt/us/ˈek.stɚ.peɪt/toremoveordestroysomethingcompletely
Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- annihilation
- apocalypse
- bash
- bash through (something)
- be sacrificed on the altar ofsomethingidiom
- fall in
- in piecesidiom
- indestructibility
- killsomethingoff
- kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
- sacrifice
- self-destruct
- self-devouring
- shred
- sink
- stave
- stavesomethingin
- tear
- wipe
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
By analogy, introduced vertebrates, such as the weka, cat, rabbit, rat and mouse have all beenextirpated, or recommended for it, for the same reason.
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Retinal regeneration into theextirpatedzones was completed by day 240, and the regenerated areas appeared free of abnormalities.
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Regeneration commences at the edge of the wound, and slowly continues over theextirpatedarea.
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This i solation will hinder re-introduction o f locallyextirpatedspecies from any regional species pool.
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The maintenance of barn owls in this area where terrestrial predators of rodents have been widelyextirpatedshould be encouraged.
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It is consistent with being less afraid of being attacked by a criminal than of getting a deadly disease to insist that wrong acts beextirpatedfirst.
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The socialist-inspired anti-industry climate and culture has not yet been properlyextirpatedfrom this country.
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We will march forward together until every vestige of this villainy has beenextirpatedfrom the life of the world.
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But that malaria is gradually beingextirpated.
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They just have to beextirpated.
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So that there is an almost unanimous and growing opinion that war is a colossal evil which ought at all costs to beextirpatedby common action.
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What we must do tonight is to try to find ways in which we acknowledge those divisions, acknowledge that those hatreds will continue to exist because they cannot beextirpated.
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Where not locallyextirpated, snow leopards and leopards are also predators of argali of any age.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The introduction of brown, rainbow and brook trout into its original ranges essentiallyextirpatedthe subspecies from park waters.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The two known populations are isolated from each other by impoundments, making recolonization of anyextirpatedpopulation impossible without human intervention.
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- craved
- craven
- cravenness
- craving
- crawdad
- crawfish
- crawl
- crawl-back-to
- crawl back (to sb)
- crawl-back-to-sb
- crawl back (to someone)
- crawled
- crawler
- crawl-go-retreat-retire-into-shell
- crawl/go/retreat/retire into your shell
- crawl-go-retreat-retire-into-your-shell
- crawling
- crawling peg
- crawling-peg
- crawling-with
- crawling with something
- crawl space
- crawl-space
- cray
- crayfish