extirper
/ɛk.stiʁ.pe/ verb C2- to uproot, extirpate (pull [a plant and its roots] out of the ground)
- to remove, take out (e.g. an organ)
- to weed out, get rid of, eradicate (e.g. a problem or characteristic)
- to pull out, take out, whip out (remove something from e.g. a holder, pocket, holster etc.)
- to drag out, hoist out, lug out (remove someone, with difficulty, from a place)
- to pull oneself out (of somewhere) · Il s'extirpe du bar pour fumer une clope. He drags himself out of the bar to smoke a ciggy.
- to fish out, make someone cough up (obtain e.g. information from someone)
Verb forms
- Infinitive
- extirper
- Present participle
- extirpant
- Past participle
- extirpé
- Present (je)
- extirpe
- Future (je)
- extirperai
- Passé composé (je)
- ai extirpé
From the library
— Certainement, votre nom est populaire, et il a orné le titre dont on a cru l'orner ; mais vous êtes un homme trop intelligent pour n'avoir point compris que, selon certains préjugés trop puissamment enracinés pour qu'on les extirpe, noblesse de cinq siècles vaut mieux que noblesse de vingt ans.
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