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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
extirpate . - adjective of a species Locally
extinct (though alive elsewhere).
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Examples
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(Of course, the only group to be extirpated from the region en masse would be those of Japanese ancestry.)
IsThatLegal? 2003
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By the mid-1800s deer, beaver, and wild turkey, to name just a few of the most commonly hunted animals, had been all but extirpated from the northeastern United States.
Overkill 2003
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By the mid-1800s deer, beaver, and wild turkey, to name just a few of the most commonly hunted animals, had been all but extirpated from the northeastern United States.
Overkill 2003
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They're endangered throughout the majority of their range, and in fact in a lot of the areas they've been extirpated, which is a local extinction.
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King William had demanded that the MacIans be "extirpated" but this was said to have been taken too far by the Master of Stair who was deemed to have exceeded his authority.
Massacre at Glencoe de Brantigny........................ 2008
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King William had demanded that the MacIans be "extirpated" but this was said to have been taken too far by the Master of Stair who was deemed to have exceeded his authority.
Archive 2008-06-29 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Unlike the Anglo-Jewish novelist Amy Levy's own ironic rejoinder to Daniel Deronda, Reuben Sachs: A Sketch (1888), Gwendolen leaves the reader in absolutely no doubt of its intentions.3 After a scant few months in the East, Daniel is ready to chuck the Jews overboard permanently: he tells a rabbi that the Jews (parasites all) need to be "extirpated" through mass assimilation (28), and is thoroughly depressed by the "unholy depravities" (64) on exhibit in the Jewish community.
Religion 2009
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Robert Gottfried writes, “By 1351, 60 major and 150 smaller Jewish communities had been extirpated, and over 350 massacres had taken place.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Robert Gottfried writes, “By 1351, 60 major and 150 smaller Jewish communities had been extirpated, and over 350 massacres had taken place.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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In most minds usage has so identified them with the notion of religion, that the one cannot be extirpated without the other.
Three Cheers for Mrs Beamish John 2009
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