extirper
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Meanings
Verb
1. to uproot, extirpate (pull [a plant and its roots] out of the ground)
2. to remove, take out (e.g. an organ) (medicine)
3. to weed out, get rid of, eradicate (e.g. a problem or characteristic) (figuratively)
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) (reflexive)
7. to fish out, make someone cough up (obtain e.g. information from someone) (colloquial)
Examples17
He drags himself out of the bar to smoke a ciggy.
Get it out of the house.
Get it out of the house.
I wanted to get my mind off work.
We made it out of there.
We made it out of there.