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Extirpate vs Pluck - What's the difference?

extirpate | pluck |

As verbs the difference between extirpate and pluck

is that extirpate is (obsolete) to clear an area of roots and stumps while pluck is (lb) to pull something sharply; to pull something out.

As a noun pluck is

an instance of plucking.

extirpate

English

Verb

(extirpat)
  • (obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
  • To pull up by the roots; uproot.
  • To destroy completely; to annihilate.
  • To surgically remove.
  • Synonyms

    * (to pull up by the roots) uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinate * (to destroy completely) annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate * (to surgically remove) excise * See also

    pluck

    English

    Verb

  • (lb) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
  • :
  • *1900 , , Ch.I:
  • *:The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined.
  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  • :
  • (lb) To remove feathers from a bird.
  • *
  • *:Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust.
  • (lb) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
  • :
  • (lb) To play a string instrument pizzicato
  • :
  • (lb) To pull or twitch sharply.
  • :
  • To reject at an examination for degrees.
  • *1847 , , (Jane Eyre)
  • *:He went to college, and he got— plucked , I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law.
  • Derived terms

    * plucker * plucking * pluck up

    Noun

    (-)
  • An instance of plucking
  • ''Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck
  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
  • He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck .

    Derived terms

    * plucky

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