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Definition of "extirpated" [extirpated]

  • Simple past tense and past participle of extirpate. (verb)
  • Locally extinct (though alive elsewhere). (adjective)

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Use "extirpated" in a sentence
  • "(Of course, the only group to be extirpated from the region en masse would be those of Japanese ancestry.)"
  • "By the mid-1800s deer, beaver, and wild turkey, to name just a few of the most commonly hunted animals, had been all but extirpated from the northeastern United States."
  • "They're endangered throughout the majority of their range, and in fact in a lot of the areas they've been extirpated, which is a local extinction."
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