Useful in the garden, in the operating room, and just about anywhere else…

extirpate (ex·tir·pate): / EK ster payt /
transitive verb

(1) to destroy or remove completely; to exterminate; to do away with; to wipe out
(2) to pull up by or as if by the roots; to root up
(3) to cut out or remove by surgery

[From Latin exstirpatus, past participle of exstirpare meaning “to root out,” from Latin prefix ex- (“out of, from”) + Latin stirps (“root, stem”).]

Usage: As impossible as it might appear, one can always hope reason and progress eventually will extirpate bigotry and intolerance.