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extirper

/ɛk.stiʁ.pe/

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verb/ɛk.stiʁ.pe/

to uproot, extirpate (pull [a plant and its roots] out of the ground); to remove, take out (e.g. an organ); to weed out, get rid of, eradicate (e.g. a problem or characteristic); to pull out, take out, whip out (remove something from e.g. a holder, pocket, holster etc.); to drag out, hoist out, lug out (remove someone, with difficulty, from a place)

Il s'extirpe du bar pour fumer une clope.He drags himself out of the bar to smoke a ciggy.

Borrowed from Latin exstirpāre. Doublet of étréper.