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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--extirpate 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. -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. X-Bonus 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)

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