資料來源 : pyDict

消滅,根除,毀滅

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Extirpation \Ex`tir*pa"tion\, n. [L. extirpatio, exstirpatio:
   cf. F. extirpation.]
   The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being
   extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the
   extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a
   race of men, of heresy.

資料來源 : WordNet®

extirpation
     n 1: surgical removal of a body part or tissue [syn: {ablation},
          {cutting out}, {excision}]
     2: the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from
        existence [syn: {excision}, {deracination}]