extirpate

Etymology

From Latin exstirpō (“uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”).

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
2. (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
3. (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate, to cause to go extinct locally.
   The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.
   "But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers? "I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that. February 23 2022, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 56
4. (transitive) To surgically remove.