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When they appear in a district, cattle-farmers have to combine to hunt them down and In heat and cold, in storm and tempest, they plied their trade of war, their holy crusade to For all this is necessary, and is undertaken in order to direct our energies to the defense of the islands, and to try to This will render the population question more acute, especially as the diseases which we hope to When first Bou-Akas assumed the government, the country was infested with robbers, but he speedily found means to We prepare ourselves to hear that woman has resolved to And as the peasantry did not return, on the 2nd November, 1560, the Count advanced at the head of his army to There was a meeting of Convocation in February, 1512, to consider how to The latter deputed Cardinal Alexandrin, inquisitor general, to Superior Varieties will ultimately Extirpate the original Species.

The sentence contains offensive content. Assuredly that inventor and his apparatus and his records would have been burned; every trace and memory of his labors would have been extirpated. 5 6 7. No matter what I try, I cannot seem to extirpate the ants from my kitchen.

By providing our dog with chew toys, we hope to extirpate his habit of chomping on our shoes. No matter what I try, I cannot seem to extirpate the ants from my kitchen.

We might, however, make it a metaphorical war by adopting the all-out, extirpating approach discussed above. Extirpate used in a sentence? The amphibian population is almost entirely extirpated. Add the power of Cambridge Dictionary to your website using our free search box widgets.Browse our dictionary apps today and ensure you are never again lost for words.

They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com. Local rulers were too weak to extirpate them. From If Jack is lucky, the surgery will extirpate all of the cancer cells from his body. From

Sentence Examples They're proposing a plan to extirpate themselves from the well-deserved guilt that they have for fermenting terror and militancy worldwide. Hopefully the pesticides will extirpate the insects from my garden. Augustine gives a rational explanation of why, according to him, the sentence must extirpate the sin and not destroy the sinner. Top Answer.

Estimates suggest that perhaps as much as half a billion mammals were extirpated at this time. 11. {{#verifyErrors}}