Extirpate vs Abolish - What's the difference?
extirpate | abolish |
(obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
To pull up by the roots; uproot.
To destroy completely; to annihilate.
To surgically remove.
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
* 2002', William Schabas, ''The '''abolition of the death penalty in international law (Cambridge University Press):
(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
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As verbs the difference between extirpate and abolish
is that extirpate is to clear an area of roots and stumps while abolish is to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.extirpate
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(extirpat)Synonyms
* (to pull up by the roots) uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinate * (to destroy completely) annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate * (to surgically remove) excise * See alsoExternal links
* * ----abolish
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(es)- Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
- And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
- His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.