Extirpate vs Extinguish - What's the difference?
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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.
to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
to destroy or abolish something
* 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
to obscure or eclipse something
(psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
(literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
Extirpate is a related term of extinguish.
In lang=en terms the difference between extirpate and extinguish
is that extirpate is to surgically remove while extinguish is to obscure or eclipse something.As verbs the difference between extirpate and extinguish
is that extirpate is (obsolete) to clear an area of roots and stumps while extinguish is to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.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
* * ----extinguish
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(es)- She extinguished all my hopes.
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- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi , lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
- The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
