Eradicate

/ɪˈɹæd.ɪ.keɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, now rare) To pull up by the roots..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, now rare) To pull up by the roots.
2. (transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
3. (obsolete) eradicated

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: delete, erase

Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.

I would like to know if there are any true moralists who would like to correspond with someone who just instinctively feels there's something wrong somewhere in this unbenevolent world and wants to save it by culminating love and eradicating the captive emotions of the self (Ego).

Thus far, virtually every cinematic attempt to convey the outrages of South African life under apartheid has been diminished by its own good intentions and by a grim sameness that eradicates any element of surprise.

She put a banner for the One Campaign, an effort to eradicate poverty in the third world led by U2's singer Bono, on her LJ […]

The germinal matrix in this area is then eradicated either by surgical or chemical matrixectomy using phenol or NaOH.

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Word Forms

• eradicates
• eradicating
• eradicated

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