extirpate英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

动词 v.

To clear an area of roots and stumps. obsolete,transitive
To pull up by the roots; uproot. transitive
To destroy completely; to annihilate. transitive

— But you are not Hercules; nor able to extirpate the Evils of others: nor even Theſeus, to extirpate the Evils of Attica. Extirpate your own then.
To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.

— The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.
To surgically remove. transitive

形容词 adj.

Extirpated obsolete

— It is profitable […] to haue all occasions of sedicion […] to be extirpate.
Rooted out, extinct, utterly destroyed. obsolete

词形变化

extirpates present,singular,third-person extirpating participle,present extirpated participle,past extirpated past more extirpate comparative most extirpate superlative

词汇关系

词源

词源 1

The verb is first attested in 1538, the adjective in 1541; borrowed from Latin exstirpātus perfect passive participle of exstirpō (“to uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Doublet of extirp. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

词源 2

The verb is first attested in 1538, the adjective in 1541; borrowed from Latin exstirpātus perfect passive participle of exstirpō (“to uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Doublet of extirp. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.