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# How to pronounce "extirp" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ɛkstɪrp/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **ex·tirp**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb
- **VERB**: To extirpate (something).
  - *Example*: "Yes in good ſooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is vvell allied, but it is impoſſible to extirpe it quite, Frier, till eating and drinking be put dovvne."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "extirp" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "“Every discipline has to have its fancy terms for simple concepts, right? So extirpated would just mean that you’ve lost it from a given area that’s defined. But it’s not extinct globally.” These migratory birds traveled South from Northern states and Canadian provinces when migrating, but overhunting made them increasingly rare."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUkeI_JkArU&t=103s)

### Example 2
> "But we had to extirpate them."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 21:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3PwG4UoJ0Y&t=1273s)

### Example 3
> "She had surgery, and to remove the epileptic focus, the neurosurgeons made an incision in the temporal lobe to get access to the disease site so they could extirpate or in some way remove the part of the brain that was causing the epilepsy. If we zoom up,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWISbU9Mv8&t=475s)

### Example 4
> "same process of extirpation is applied in the territories of her former allies and of her immediate neighbors by land."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 94:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCbkMkOScFs&t=5673s)

### Example 5
> "But the native fauna was extirpated in the last glacial maximum."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 42:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxKnWYlfwXw&t=2544s)

### Example 6
> "opinions is not sufficient to extirpate them but let us not flatter ourselves that we are yet free from the strain even of"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 82:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWYjSXVU5c0&t=4956s)

### Example 7
> "and therefore they had to extirpate, block off the routes of heresies."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGvV8TLXVYs&t=339s)

### Example 8
> "this rhetorical theater working together to expert extirpate the the abomination."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 54:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_M1r3Dbo48&t=3294s)

### Example 9
> "of these the unprofitable habits of the blessed one had been extirpated by his attainment of saint ship at the time he sat cross-legged under the boat tree"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 96:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESqfqqwiCM&t=5814s)

### Example 10
> "So: "Since then I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 15:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGjI1pRdYyk&t=931s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [excerp](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/excerp)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "extirp" correctly?
"extirp" is pronounced `/ɛkstɪrp/`. Syllable breakdown: **ex·tirp**.

### What does "extirp" mean in context?
To extirpate (something).

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