eradicate
verb/ɪˈɹæd.ɪ.keɪt//əˈræd.əˌkeɪt/US
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.
- derived from ērādīcātus
- inherited from eradicaten
Definitions
To pull up by the roots.
To destroy completely
To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
- Near-synonyms: delete, erase
- Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.
eradicated
The neighborhood
- neighboreradicable
- neighboreradication
- neighboreradicative
- neighborineradicable
- neighborradical
- neighborroot
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for eradicate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA