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settlements. — The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson;
• (extirpate)- to remove or destroy totally; do away with;
exterminate,( , ); We demoralize and
we extirpate, but we never really civilize. — The Malay Archipelago, the land of
the orang-utan and the bird of paradise;
• to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up; to extirpate an unwanted
hair;
• (eradicate)- to tear up by the roots; Durango's beef stew hadn't been strong
enough to eradicate her taste from his mouth. — Stone Cold Surrender;
• (annihilate)- to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly,
( , ); Genocide constitutes the most extreme
possible terms for settling differences: a stronger party's decision to
annihilate or extirpate the weaker;
• to annul; make void,( );
• (decimate)- to destroy a great number or proportion of, usually one out of
ten, ( );Israeli political leaders have drawn the
lesson from their dirty little 'war' that they can totally destroy a nation,
decimate a society and murder and maim 7000 civilians with impunity. —
Signs of the Times;
ineradicable = indelible = inexterminable ~ permanent : indissoluble
• (ineradicable)- not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out,
or completely removed, ( , ); His one interest in religion
seemed to lie in his notion that it was a curious form of delusion
almost ineradicable from the human mind. — The Private Life of Henry
Maitland;
• (endelible)- making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or the like,
( , ); The disgrace of having been in jail was indelible, and
the danger was by no means over. — The Colonel's Dream;
• (inexterminable)- not exterminable; incapable of being exterminated;
Tears came into his light eyes when he said that, and she perceived that there
was nothing in his soul save sickly, deserving innocence, and of course
this inexterminable love for her. — The Judge;
• (permanent)- lasting or remaining without essential change; If that church
believed the institution to be permanent, their belief does not settle the
question for us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson;
• (indissoluble)- not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed,
undone, or destroyed, ( , , , ); In a land where
there is boundless liberty of divorce, wedlock is described as