extirpar

v.

1 to remove.

2 to extirpate, to eliminate, to stamp out, to exterminate.

Elsa extirpó las hierbas Elsa extirpated the weeds.

El médico extirpó el tumor The doctor extirpated the tumor.

3 to be extirpated from, to be removed from.

Se le extirpó un tumor A tumor was extirpated from him=her.

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extirpar

► verbo transitivo

1 MEDICINA to remove, extract

2 figurado to eradicate, wipe out, stamp out

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verb

to extirpate, eradicate, excise

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VT

1) [+ problema, vicio] to eradicate, stamp out

2) (Med) to remove (surgically), take out

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verbo transitivo

a) (Med) to remove, extirpate (frml)

b) <vicio/terrorismo> to eradicate, extirpate (frml)

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= excise.

Ex. Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.

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verbo transitivo

a) (Med) to remove, extirpate (frml)

b) <vicio/terrorismo> to eradicate, extirpate (frml)

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= excise.

Ex: Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.

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extirpar [A1 ]

vt

1 ‹tumor/órgano› to remove, extirpate (frml)

2 ‹vicio/terrorismo› to eradicate, extirpate (frml)

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extirpar (conjugate extirpar) verbo transitivo (Med) to remove
extirpar verbo transitivo
1 Med to remove: extirparon el tumor con éxito, they successfully removed the tumour
2 (vicios, abusos) to eradicate, stamp out
'extirpar' also found in these entries:
English:
extirpate
- remove

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extirpar vt

1. [quirúrgicamente] [órgano, tumor, quiste] to remove, Espec to extirpate;

[muela] to extract

2. [erradicar] to eradicate, to stamp out

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extirpar

v/t

1 MED remove

2 vicio eradicate, stamp out

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extirpar vt

: to eradicate, to remove, to excise

♦ See also the reflexive verb extirparse

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extirpar vb to remove