Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extirpating or serving to extirpate, root out, or destroy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Extirpative.
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- adjective
extirpative
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Examples
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Thus the conservative surgeon and the radical or extirpatory surgeon may both be right as far as the ultimate cure is concerned; so that their consciences do not help them out of their differences.
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903
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