Eliminate vs Extirpate - What's the difference?
eliminate | extirpate |
(slang) To kill (a person or animal).
(physiology) To excrete (waste products).
To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
(accounting) To record amounts in a to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
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(obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
To pull up by the roots; uproot.
To destroy completely; to annihilate.
To surgically remove.
As verbs the difference between eliminate and extirpate
is that eliminate isto completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists
while extirpate is (obsolete) to clear an area of roots and stumps. eliminate
English
Verb
(eliminat)To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
- Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
- John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
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