Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of or effecting extirpation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, relating to, or pertaining to an
extirpation .
Etymologies
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extirpate + -ive
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Examples
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OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is less invasive and more tissue sparing than extirpative techniques, with an assumed benefit of diminished postoperative pain.
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So, Japanese Christianity, having vanished in blood, was supposed to have no existence, thus furnishing Mr. Lecky with arguments to prove the extirpative power of persecution. [
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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