extirper
French, verb/ɛk.stiʁ.pe/
extirper is spelled E-X-T-I-R-P-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,485th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Extirper is a French verb meaning “to uproot, extirpate (pull [a plant and its roots] out of the ground)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déraciner, en parlant des plantes indésirables, de telle façon qu’elles ne puissent plus repousser”.
What does extirper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to uproot, extirpate (pull [a plant and its roots] out of the ground)
- 2
to remove, take out (e.g. an organ)
- 3
to weed out, get rid of, eradicate (e.g. a problem or characteristic)
- 4
to pull out, take out, whip out (remove something from e.g. a holder, pocket, holster etc.)
- 5
to drag out, hoist out, lug out (remove someone, with difficulty, from a place)
- 6
to pull oneself out (of somewhere)
Il s'extirpe du bar pour fumer une clope.
- 7
colloquialto fish out, make someone cough up (obtain e.g. information from someone)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déraciner, en parlant des plantes indésirables, de telle façon qu’elles ne puissent plus repousser. 2. Enlever entièrement. 3. Détruire complètement. 4. Extraire avec difficulté.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of extirper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- extirpant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- extirpé participle past
- extirpe first-person indicative present
- extirpes indicative present second-person
- extirpons first-person indicative plural
- extirpez indicative plural present
- extirpent indicative plural present
- extirpais first-person imperfect indicative
- extirpait imperfect indicative singular
- extirpions first-person imperfect indicative
- extirpiez imperfect indicative plural
- extirpaient imperfect indicative plural
- extirpai first-person historic indicative
- extirpas historic indicative past
- extirpa historic indicative past
- extirpâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce extirper?
- /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/
- \ɛk.stiʁ.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to extirper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is extirper in French?
extirper appears 1.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).