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

Glasberg argues that “while it is imperative to be aware of ‘race’ to extirpate racism, it is unnecessary to continue to racialize groups victimized by racism.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019

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

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

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

This solution, applied daily, preserves and beautifies the teeth, extirpates all tartarous adhesion, produces a pearl-like whiteness, arrests decay, and induces a healthy action in the gums.

From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

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

It destroys and in the end extirpates the evil feeling.

From The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Constance Garnett

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

It is probable that beavers may have formerly been numerous here, at least the place is quite suited to them; but those harmless animals have been long since extirpated.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

“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