extirpation

Ex`tir*pa"tion, n. Etym: [L. extirpatio, exstirpatio: cf. F. extirpation.] Defn: The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.

---