extirpation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

extirpation (countable and uncountable, plural extirpations)

1. The act of extirpating or uprooting.
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 34:

     it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices

Translations

the act of extirpating

• Bengali: উকারানো (ukaranō)
• Bulgarian: изкореняване (bg) n (izkorenjavane)
• Catalan: extirpació (ca) f
• Dutch: uitroeiing (nl) f
• German: Ausrottung (de) f
• Greek: εκρίζωση (el) f (ekrízosi)
• Ido: extirpo (io)
• Maori: whakamōtītanga
• Portuguese: extirpação (pt) f
• Spanish: extirpación (es) f

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

extirpation f (plural extirpations)

1. extirpation

Further reading

• “extirpation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.