eradicate
verb/ɪˈrædɪkeɪt/
/ɪˈrædɪkeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they eradicate | /ɪˈrædɪkeɪt/ /ɪˈrædɪkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it eradicates | /ɪˈrædɪkeɪts/ /ɪˈrædɪkeɪts/ |
| past simple eradicated | /ɪˈrædɪkeɪtɪd/ /ɪˈrædɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle eradicated | /ɪˈrædɪkeɪtɪd/ /ɪˈrædɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form eradicating | /ɪˈrædɪkeɪtɪŋ/ /ɪˈrædɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- to destroy or get rid of something completely, especially something bad synonym wipe out
- eradicate something Diphtheria has been virtually eradicated in the United States.
- eradicate something from something We are determined to eradicate racism from our sport.
Extra Examples- These insects are very difficult to eradicate.
- Effective action is needed to eradicate terrorism, drug-trafficking and corruption.
- Smallpox had been completely eradicated from the world.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- entirely
- totally
- …
- try to
- help (to)
- be difficult to
- …
- from
- an attempt to eradicate something
- an effort to eradicate something
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘pull up by the roots’): from Latin eradicat- ‘torn up by the roots’, from the verb eradicare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + radix, radic- ‘root’.Definitions on the go
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