extirpate

“The enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century,” the social reformer Henry George complained in his 1879 bestseller, “Progress and Poverty,” “has no tendency to extirpate poverty.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023

"Feral American mink pose a particular risk to island biodiversity, especially to ground-nesting birds and small mammals which in certain circumstances they may have the potential to extirpate," Keen explained.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2022

It was a poor return for American backing for the Baghdad government’s drive to extirpate Islamic State and regain lost territory.

From The Guardian ● May 15, 2018

It's essentially a novelization of the War of Canudos conflict in 19th century Brazil, where the government of Brazil engaged in a prolonged effort to extirpate a communitarian religious community in the wilds of Bahia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018

To extirpate is to exterminate or destroy a living entity or group so completely that it ceases to exist forever.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Spiritual sympathy is a lesser mercy than that forethought which anticipates and extirpates the causes of suffering.

From The Principles Of Secularism by George Jacob Holyoake

I think that the intellect and moral sentiment are unanimous; and that, though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.

From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It destroys and in the end extirpates the evil feeling.

From The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Constance Garnett

The exercise of the religious nature is the gymnastics of the soul, and the disuse of the religious nature extirpates its capacity.

From Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

In recent decades, sightings were rare and Florida classified them extirpated, insisting that any spotted in nature were escapees from zoos or sanctuaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Wildlife officials have collared a dozen gray wolves in Northern California in an effort to better understand and manage the species that has made a comeback in the state after being extirpated a century ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025

"Jaguars were nearly, but never fully, extirpated from this region," McSpadden explained, adding that they are "tenacious" animals, and populations from northern Mexico have always strayed across the U.S.-Mexico border from time to time.

From Salon ● May 31, 2024

This suggests that local populations may have been extirpated -- a term to describe a type of localized extinction, said study co-author Scott Baker, associate director of OSU's Marine Mammal Institute.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2023

It behooves us to heed the warning of such examples, and now and then to be idle betimes, lest the capacity for idleness be extirpated by disuse.

From A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey

“I don’t want to go so far as to say that the humans are the cause of this variation by extirpating predators,” says Stankowich.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 6, 2023

And led by Rep. Tim Ryan, Ohio Democrat and chairman of the subcommittee that oversees Congress own internal budget, they inserted language into the 2021 spending bill setting the 45-day deadline for extirpating the Confederates.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2020

In the twentieth century, human beings did penguins a favor by all but extirpating many of the whales and seals that they competed with for food.

From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016

George W. Bush, in his pre-Presidential days, was even more preoccupied than his father with extirpating aides who, in his view, had their own agendas.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2015

The curse of knowledge hides them from the writer, who therefore must put some effort into spotting and extirpating them.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker