Extirpates

Word EXTIRPATES
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Definitions and meanings of "Extirpates"

What do we mean by extirpates?

To clear an area of roots and stumps.

To pull up by the roots; uproot.

To destroy completely; to annihilate.

To surgically remove.

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The word "extirpates" in example sentences

The woman with the metastatic cancer is not going to be cured by a radical mastectomy, no matter how aggressively and meticulously Halsted extirpates the tumor in her breast: her cancer is no longer a local problem. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So you have to get at the cancer that creates the growths, and that ` s different than the force that extirpates the malignant growth. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If he believes that an organ is at best a useless survival, and that if he extirpates it the patient will be well and none the worse in a fortnight, whereas to await the natural cure would mean a month's illness, then he is clearly justified in recommending the operation even if the cure without operation is as certain as anything of the kind ever can be. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

But if he operates on the throat and kills the patient, or extirpates an internal organ and keeps the whole nation palpitating for days whilst the patient hovers in pain and fever between life and death, his fortune is made: every rich man who omits to call him in when the same symptoms appear in his household is held not to have done his utmost duty to the patient. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

The exercise of the religious nature is the gymnastics of the soul, and the disuse of the religious nature extirpates its capacity. ❋ Francis Greenwood Peabody (1891)

For he saith that she both brings in virtue, and extirpates vice, nay rather she suffers it not to spring up at all ❋ Editor (1889)

The oriental custom according to which the new ruler extirpates the preceding dynasty, was not systematically carried out by David, and a special exception was made in favour of a son left by Jonathan. ❋ Julius Wellhausen (1881)

Hence the action of man upon the organic world tends to derange its original balances, and while it reduces the numbers of some species, or even extirpates them altogether, it multiplies other forms of animal and vegetable life. ❋ Unknown (1874)

The wandering savage grows no cultivated vegetable, fells no forest, and extirpates no useful plant, no noxious weed. ❋ Unknown (1874)

As Priest He expiates sin; as King, extirpates it. ❋ Unknown (1871)

It destroys and in the end extirpates the evil feeling. ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)

I mean not tolerated Popery and open superstition; which, as it extirpates all religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate -- provided first that all charitable and a compassionate means be used to win and regain the weak and the misled. ❋ David Masson (1864)

Fortunately, however, the cold soon extirpates them. ❋ Unknown (1859)

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. ❋ Unknown (1850)

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