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Extirpate
- verb - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
- surgically remove (an organ)
Extollers
- noun - someone who communicates high praise
Extolling
- verb - praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"
Extolment
- noun - an expression of approval and commendation; "he always appreciated praise for his work"
Extorsive
- - Serving or tending to extort.
Extorting
- verb - get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
- 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"
- obtain through intimidation
Extortion
- noun - an exorbitant charge
- the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)
- unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority); "the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty"
Extracted
- verb - calculate the root of a number
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
- extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
- 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"
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Extractor
- noun - a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector
- an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension
- an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components
Extradite
- verb - hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there"