Crossword-Solution: EXTIRPATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Extirpate | v. t. | To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “EXTIRPATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Get rid of dandelions | 1 answer |
| Destroy totally | 3 answers |
| DERACINATE | 3 answers |
| resect | 5 answers |
| root out | 8 answers |
| circumduct | 9 answers |
| disannul | 10 answers |
| destroy completely | 15 answers |
| blot out | 25 answers |
| Erase | 31 answers |
| Wipe out | 34 answers |
| exterminate | 41 answers |
| vacate | 42 answers |
| efface | 43 answers |
| Disallow | 44 answers |
| annihilate | 45 answers |
| Quash | 46 answers |
| Cut out | 47 answers |
| Abolish | 51 answers |
| eradicate | 51 answers |
| Extinguish | 55 answers |
| Undo | 58 answers |
| Get rid of | 58 answers |
| Vitiate | 64 answers |
| Destroy | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXTIRPATE (5)
King Phoebus bids us straitly extirpate A fell pollution that infests the land, And no more harbor an inveterate sore.
Less thick and fast the whirlwind scours the main With tempest in its wake, than swarm the plagues Of cattle; nor seize they single lives alone, But sudden clear whole feeding grounds, the flock With all its promise, and extirpate the breed.
Although the argument of Samuel to Saul was used with frightful effect two hundred years later by a most conscientious pope in spurring on the rulers of France to extirpate the Huguenots, the papacy in the fourteenth century stood for mercy to the Jews.
And as to England, all the evils with which Philip the Second threatened Elizabeth, were mainly intended in revenge for her having taken his Protestant subjects under her protection, and placing herself at the head of a religious party which it was his aim and endeavour to extirpate.
One general council is not able to extirpate one single heresy: it may be cancelled for the present; but revolution of time, and the like aspects from heaven, will restore it, when it will flourish till it be condemned again.
Quotes with EXTIRPATE (3)
I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.
Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader k…
It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in conte…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1977–1986).