Extirpate
Extirpate (?; 277) , transitive verb
[Latin extirpatus, exstirpatus, past participle of extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock, stem, root.]
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.