Extricate vs. Extirpate

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(transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

Extricateverb

(rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity

Extricateverb

To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc.

Extricateverb

To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.

Extricateverb

release from entanglement of difficulty;

Extricateverb

free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty

Extricate

Extricate is the 12th album by post-punk band the Fall. It was made immediately after bandleader Mark E. Smith divorced guitarist Brix Smith.

Extirpateverb

To clear an area of roots and stumps.

Extirpateverb

(transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.

Extirpateverb

(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.

Extirpateverb

(transitive) To surgically remove.

Extirpateverb

To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

Extirpateverb

destroy completely, as if down to the roots;

Extirpateverb

pull up by or as if by the roots;

Extirpateverb

surgically remove (an organ)

Extirpateverb

eradicate or destroy completely