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The medication assists where surgery cannot completely extirpate a tumor.
extirpate = eliminate or destroy

It takes more than laws to extirpate prejudice.

I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
extirpate = remove

Extirpation?† (source)

In spite of devastating and repeated acts of massacre, assassination and extirpation, the huge acts of faith which have marked the new relations between Palestinians and Israelis, Africans and Afrikaners, and the way in which walls have come down in Europe and iron curtains have opened, all this inspires a hope that new possibility can still open up in Ireland as well.† (source) Seamus Heaney, Crediting Poetry, 1995

It therefore must have seemed a safe bet, to the politicians-cum-scientists who had employed me, that a research study of wolf—caribou relationships in the Barrens would uncover incontrovertible proof with which to damn the wolf wherever he might be found, and provide a more than sufficient excuse for the adoption of a general campaign for his extirpation.† (source) Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf, 1963

Better to incorporate than struggle to extirpate?† (source) Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light, 1967

The disease nearly extirpated the tribe.

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I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Should presently extirpate me and mine (source) Shakespeare, Tempest

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With the final "extirpation of delusion, desire, and hostility" (nirvana) the mind knows that it is not what it thought: thought goes.† (source)

One can demolish a mass; bow can one extirpate ubiquity?† (source)

The individuals extirpated, the tribe subsists.† (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

The brigands have never been really extirpated from the neighborhood of Rome.† (source)

They were commanded to extirpate magic and heresy.† (source) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1820

Holabird had, five years before, done one bit of research which had taken his name into scientific journals throughout the world: he had studied the effect of the extirpation of the anterior lobes of a dog's brain on its ability to find its way through the laboratory.† (source) Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925

He was, as a matter of fact, convinced that she had not; the anonymous letter had put the idea into his mind, but in a purely mechanical way; it had been received there with no credulity, but it had, for all that, remained there, and Swann, wishing to be rid of the burden—a dead weight, but none the less disturbing—of this suspicion, hoped that Odette would now extirpate it for ever.† (source) Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, 1913

To found their new states it was necessary to extirpate or to subdue a numerous population, until civilization has been made to blush for their success.† (source)

The whole race of Saxon princes and nobles had been extirpated or disinherited, with few or no exceptions; nor were the numbers great who possessed land in the country of their fathers, even as proprietors of the second, or of yet inferior classes.† (source) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1820

All intermediate measures seem to me likely to terminate, and that shortly, in the most horrible of civil wars, and perhaps in the extirpation of one or other of the two races.† (source)

*w But the several States oppose so formidable a resistance to the execution of this design, that the government is obliged to consent to the extirpation of a few barbarous tribes in order not to endanger the safety of the American Union.† (source)

And, indeed, if it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for cultivators of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.† (source)

The social compact would dissolve, and justice be extirpated the earth, or have only a casual existence were we callous to the touches of affection.† (source) Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR.† (source) Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

This King of Naples, being an enemy
To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;
Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises
Of homage and I know not how much tribute,
Should presently extirpate me and mine
Out of the dukedom, and... (source) William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1611
extirpate = completely remove

King Phoebus bids us straitly extirpate A fell pollution that infests the land, And no more harbor an inveterate sore.† (source) Sophocles, Oedipus the King, -429 B.C.

And in the last place, where this might not be the case, they would be of long standing, would have taken deep root, and would not easily be extirpated.† (source)

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