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Word Meanings - DERACINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.

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  • DESTROYABLE
    Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
  • DERACINATE
    To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.
  • EXTIRPATE
    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. Syn. -- To eradicate; root out;
  • DESTROY
    destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
  • EXTERMINATE
    To eliminate, as unknown quantities. (more info) abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, 1. To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow. 2. To destroy utterly; to cut
  • ERADICATE
    1. To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated. 2. To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors. This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment.
  • DESTROYER
    One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
  • UPROOT
    To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate. Trees uprooted left their place. Dryden. At his command the uprooted hills retired. Milton.
  • SELF-DESTROYER
    One who destroys himself; a suicide.
  • TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
    A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
  • UNDESTROYABLE
    Indestructible.
  • COMMERCE DESTROYER
    A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.

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