A Word A Day…

This week’s theme: verbs.

extirpate (EK-stuhr-payt) verb tr.

1. To destroy completely.

2. To pull up by the roots.

[From Latin extirpare (to root out), from stirps (stem, root).]

Today’s word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=extirpate

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

“Shut up, shut up, shut up. Disloyal thoughts must be ruthlessly extirpated.”

Gene Kerrigan; Screw Democracy, Here’s Dear Leader; Irish Independent

(Dublin, Ireland); Apr 13, 2008.

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones. -Samuel Beckett, author (1906-1989)

Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/extirpate.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/extirpate.ram

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Dave