eradicate

Borrowed from Latin ērādīcātus, past participle of ērādīcō (“uproot”), from ē- (“out”) + rādīx (“root”). Also see: radish.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹæd.ɪ.keɪt/

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

1. (transitive) To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
2. (transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.

   Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.

• (to pull up by the roots): root up, uproot
• (to completely destroy): annihilate, exterminate, extirpate
• See also Thesaurus:destroy

• radicate

• eradicable
• eradication
• eradicative
• radical
• root

• eradicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• eradicate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• acierated

eradicate

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

eradicate

1. feminine plural of eradicato

ērādīcāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ērādīcō