extirper

extirp +‎ -er

extirper (plural extirpers)

1. (obsolete) An extirpator.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:

     extirpers of tyrants

• “extirper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin exstirpāre.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/

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extirper

1. to uproot, extirpate (pull [a plant and its roots] out of the ground)
2. (medicine) to remove, take out (e.g. an organ)
3. (figuratively) to weed out, get rid of, eradicate (e.g. a problem or characteristic)
4. to pull out, take out, whip out (remove something from e.g. a holder, pocket, holster etc.)
5. to drag out, hoist out, lug out (remove someone, with difficulty, from a place)
6. (reflexive) to pull oneself out (of somewhere)

   Il s’extirpe du bar pour fumer une clope.

   He drags himself out of the bar to smoke a ciggy.

7. (colloquial) to fish out, make someone cough up (obtain e.g. information from someone)

• “extirper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

extirper

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of extirpō