eradicate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ērādīcātus, past participle of ērādīcō (“uproot”), from ē- (“out”) + rādīx (“root”). See also erase and radish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹæd.ɪ.keɪt/

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Verb

eradicate (third-person singular simple present eradicates, present participle eradicating, simple past and past participle eradicated)

1. (transitive) To pull up by the roots.

   Synonyms: root up, uproot

   Antonym: radicate

2. (transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.

   Synonyms: annihilate, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate; see also Thesaurus:destroy

   Antonyms: encourage, foster, introduce, protect, radicate

   Near-synonyms: delete, erase

   Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.

   • 1986 April 26, Tony Marcus Antuan Haywood, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:

     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).

   • 1989 September 20, Janet Maslin, “Review/Film; Sutherland Catches On To Apartheid Slowly”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

   • 2007, Anastasia Goodstein, Totally Wired:

     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 […]

   • 2016, Roba Khundkar, Silva Samantha De, Rajat Chowdury, Consent in Surgery: A Practical Guide, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 89:

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

Anagrams

• acierated

Verb

eradicate

1. inflection of eradicare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

eradicate

1. feminine plural of eradicato

Verb

ērādīcāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ērādīcō