extirpate
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~ pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
extirpate
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~ destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"; "root out corruption"
extirpate
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~ surgically remove (an organ)
extol
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~ praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"
extort
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~ get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
extort
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~ obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
extort
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~ obtain through intimidation
extract
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~ deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
extract
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~ calculate the root of a number
extract
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~ get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
extract
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~ extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
extract
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~ separate (a metal) from an ore
extract
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~ obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
extract
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~ take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
extract
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~ remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
extradite
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~ hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there"
extrapolate
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~ draw from specific cases for more general cases
extrapolate
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~ gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating
extrapolate
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~ estimate the value of
extravasate
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~ become active and spew forth lava and rocks; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while"