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What does extirpation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of extirpating or uprooting.
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What single social advance subtracted more from the sum of human misery than the extirpation of slavery in the nineteenth century?
These are the northern species the committee believes are facing imminent extirpation or extinction.
But if they will be hated and chastised no matter what they do, what holds them back from a truly ruthless extirpation of their enemy?
Populations of listed plants like the northeastern bulrush are prone to extirpation because of their occurrence in sensitive habitats.
Work was under way to develop the analytical tools to establish the probabilities of extirpation associated with a range of harvesting regimes.
Reed briefly reviewed different methods for assessing susceptibility to extirpation for scoring conservation priorities.

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