extirpate

"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

These things are diffuse, pervasive and difficult to extirpate.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2020

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

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 Peabody, Francis Greenwood

The revolution extirpates kingship in the king, aristocracy in the noble, despotism in the soldier, superstition in the priest, barbarity in the judge, in a word whatever is tyranny in whatever is tyrant.

From Studies in Literature by Morley, John

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

From The Principles Of Secularism by Holyoake, George Jacob

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 Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It destroys and in the end extirpates the evil feeling.

From The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Garnett, Constance

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

Instead, she advocated for a proactive approach, including moving steelhead so they can recolonize areas where they’ve been extirpated due to fires, floods or other catastrophes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 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

It’s unclear what grizzlies of the North Cascades may have eaten before they were extirpated, as little to no data is available on their diets and behaviors.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

Professor Dewar has shown that when light acts on an extirpated eye, a current of electricity does traverse the nerves, and of such an amount that it can be shown to a large audience.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.

“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