eradicate
to remove or destroy utterly; extirpate: to eradicate smallpox throughout the world.
to erase by rubbing or by means of a chemical solvent: to eradicate a spot.
to pull up by the roots: to eradicate weeds.
Origin of eradicate
1synonym study For eradicate
Other words for eradicate
Other words from eradicate
- e·rad·i·cant [ih-rad-i-kuhnt], /ɪˈræd ɪ kənt/, adjective, noun
- e·rad·i·ca·tion [ih-rad-i-key-shuhn], /ɪˌræd ɪˈkeɪ ʃən/, noun
- e·rad·i·ca·tive, adjective
- e·rad·i·ca·tor, noun
- non·e·rad·i·ca·tive, adjective
- un·e·rad·i·cat·ed, adjective
- un·e·rad·i·ca·tive, adjective
Words Nearby eradicate
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How to use eradicate in a sentence
No effective treatments were discovered by the time the disease was eradicated.
Smallpox used to kill millions of people every year. Here’s how humans beat it. | Kelsey Piper | February 5, 2021 | VoxA farmer who aggressively eradicates all the insects on their land might be setting up an invisible desert for birds passing through.
A new mapping method could help humans and wildlife coexist | Philip Kiefer | February 4, 2021 | Popular-SciencePakistan is one of the three countries in the world where polio has not been eradicated.
How the CIA’s fake vaccine program in Pakistan helped fuel the anti-vax movement | Hala Iqbal | February 1, 2021 | VoxUnless the coronavirus is eradicated everywhere, she said, it will remain a threat to the United States and other countries.
New coronavirus variants accelerate race to make sure vaccines keep up | Carolyn Y. Johnson, Laurie McGinley, Joel Achenbach | January 26, 2021 | Washington PostWe’ll never go back to the way things were even if the virus is eradicated.
‘We’ll never go back to the way things were’: Confessions of a producer on in-person shoots | Kayleigh Barber | January 25, 2021 | Digiday
We need Obama to follow through on his promise to eradicate it.
The West’s Female-Genital Mutilation Wake-Up Call | Charlotte Lytton | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt might take us centuries to eradicate the sexism that powers the harassment of women on a cultural level.
First impressions are tough to eradicate—especially in the cutthroat world of Hollywood.
Brooklyn Decker on Her ‘Horrible’ Modeling Experiences, Marriage, and Cracking Hollywood | Marlow Stern | April 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTErdogan had announced the move in a speech on Thursday, vowing to “eradicate Twitter.”
“We will eradicate Twitter”, he said during a campaign speech on Thursday.
You cannot all at once eradicate the deep-rooted customs and habits of any people, whoever they may be.
The country here is infested by guerillas, whom all our efforts cannot eradicate.
Under Wellington's Command | G. A. HentyBut he could not bequeath political capacity to his colleagues, nor could he eradicate many bad traditions of long standing.
Argentina | W. A. HirstI wanted to eradicate those twisted ideas, and make her good qualities her ruling ones.
Children of the Whirlwind | Leroy ScottIndeed, even in our own day it has hardly been possible to eradicate from India the custom of burning the widow of the deceased.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt
British Dictionary definitions for eradicate
/ (ɪˈrædɪˌkeɪt) /
to obliterate; stamp out
to pull or tear up by the roots
Origin of eradicate
1Derived forms of eradicate
- eradicable, adjective
- eradicably, adverb
- eradication, noun
- eradicative, adjective
- eradicator, noun
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