Definition of "extirpates" [extirpates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extirpate. (verb)

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• "The woman with the metastatic cancer is not going to be cured by a radical mastectomy, no matter how aggressively and meticulously Halsted extirpates the tumor in her breast: her cancer is no longer a local problem."
• "I think that the intellect and moral sentiment are unanimous; and that though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul."
• "So you have to get at the cancer that creates the growths, and that ` s different than the force that extirpates the malignant growth."