Definition of Extirpable

1. Adjective. Capable of being totally destroyed or wiped out.

Exact synonyms: Exterminable
Similar to: Eradicable

Definition of Extirpable

1. a. Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant.

Definition of Extirpable

1. Adjective. Capable of being extirpated or eradicated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Extirpable

1. Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extirpable

extines
extinguish
extinguishable
extinguishant
extinguishants
extinguished
extinguisher
extinguishers
extinguishes
extinguisheth
extinguishing
extinguishment
extinguishments
extinguisht
extirp
extirpable (current term)
extirpate
extirpated
extirpates
extirpating
extirpation
extirpations
extirpative
extirpator
extirpators
extirpatory
extirped
extirper
extirpers
extirping

Literary usage of Extirpable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... a. extirpable, eradicable 91, vt to extirpate, to eradi- to destroy, to exterminate ing, /. extirpation, excision, ation, extermination en, ..."

2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1884)
"His chief regret is that there is such a paucity of extirpable material within the compass of a single body. Nature has turned out of her mysterious ..."

3. A Critical Examination of Irish History: Being a Replacement of the False by by Thomas Dunbar Ingram (1904)
"... there existed in the breast of every Irish Catholic an in- extirpable abhorrence of the English name and power".1 In another part of the same journal, ..."

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