(verb) : ex-stirpo (ext-), āvi, ātum, 1
* To pluck up by the stem or root, to root out, extirpate.
* Lit. (only post-Aug.): arbores,Curt. 7, 8, 7; cf. lucos,id. 7, 5, 17; and: silva exstirpata procellis,Prud. Hamart. 241: pilos de corpore toto,Mart. 6, 56, 3.— Transf.: silvestris ager decrescente luna utilissime exstirpatur,is cleared from stubble,Col. 11, 2, 52: agros arboribus atque virgultis,Pall. Jul. 1, 1.
* Trop., to root out, eradicate, extirpate (class.): vitia et funditus tollere,Cic. Fat 5, 11: ex animo humanitatem,id. Lael. 13, 48: perturbationes,id. Tusc. 4, 19, 43: nomina inimica libertati, Sen. de Ira, 1, 16 med.: virtutem Israël,Vulg. 1 Macc. 3, 35.

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