<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1fb8ac2f-8bea-4aba-85aa-d8691d33e148/93592599-06EB-467F-8394-97992952C1B8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl" href="http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl" style="font-size: 11px;">www.m-w.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl"><DIV class="wod_def"> <H1>The Word of the Day for July 23, 2007 is:</H1> <SPAN class="headword">extirpate</SPAN> <SPAN class="pronunc"> • \EK-ster-payt\ <A href="javascript:popWin('/cgi-bin/audio.pl?extirp01.wav=extirpate')"><IMG src="http://www.m-w.com/images/audio.gif" /></A> • </SPAN> <SPAN class="func">verb</SPAN> <DL> <DD><SPAN class="sense_marker">*1 a :</SPAN> to destroy completely <STRONG>:</STRONG> wipe out</DD> <DD><SPAN class="sense_marker">b :</SPAN> to pull up by the root</DD> </DL> <DL> <DD><SPAN class="sense_marker">2 :</SPAN> to cut out by surgery</DD> </DL> <H2>Example Sentence:</H2> <SPAN class="verbal">By insisting that he has a plan to extirpate crime and corruption in our cities, the governor might have bitten off more than he can chew.</SPAN> <H2>Did you know?</H2> <SPAN class="dyk"><DIV>If we do a little digging, we discover that "extirpate" finds its roots in, well, roots (and stumps). Early English uses of the word in the 16th century carried the meaning of "to clear of stumps" or "to pull something up by the root." "Extirpate" grew out of a combination of the Latin prefix "ex-" and the Latin noun "stirps," meaning "trunk" or "root." The word "stirp" itself remains rooted in our own language as a term meaning "a line descending from a common ancestor." </DIV><BR />*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.</SPAN> <UL class="links"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.m-w.com/word/index.xml"><IMG src="http://www.m-w.com/images/feedpodcast.gif" /></A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">What's this?</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://condor.eb.com/word/podcast/wd20070723.mp3">Play today's podcast</A></LI> </UL> <UL class="credits"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Theme music by Joshua Stamper ©2006 <A href="http://www.newjerusalemmusic.com/">New Jerusalem Music/ASCAP</A></LI> </UL> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/93592599-06EB-467F-8394-97992952C1B8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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