verb

1. To clear an area of roots and stumps.

2. To pull up by the roots; uproot.

3. To destroy completely; to annihilate.

   “The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.”

Synonyms: annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate, deracinate, eradicate, extricate, uproot