eradicate
verbEtymology From Middle English eradicat(e) (“eradicated”, past participle of eradicaten), used up until Early Modern English, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
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Obsolete, Participle eradicated
eradicate
verbUS /əˈræd.əˌkeɪt/ · /ɪˈɹæd.ɪ.keɪt/
Etymology PIE word *wréh₂ds From Middle English eradicaten (“to eradicate”), from eradicat(e) (“eradicated”, past participle of eradicaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin ērādīcātus, the perfect passive participle of ērādīcō (“to uproot, root out; to anihilate, eradicate”), from ē- (“out”) + rādīx (“root”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also radish.
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Archaic To pull up by the roots.
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To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
- Near-synonyms: delete, erase
- Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.
4 more examples
- 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).1986 April 26, Tony Marcus Antuan Haywood, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:
- 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.1989 September 20, Janet Maslin, “Review/Film; Sutherland Catches On To Apartheid Slowly”, in The New York Times:
- 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 […]2007, Anastasia Goodstein, Totally Wired:
- The germinal matrix in this area is then eradicated either by surgical or chemical matrixectomy using phenol or NaOH.2016, Roba Khundkar, Silva Samantha De, Rajat Chowdury, Consent in Surgery: A Practical Guide, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 89:
- Derived terms
- eradicant, eradicator
- Related terms
- eradicable, eradication, eradicative, ineradicable, radical, root