eradicate
Verb
- kill in large numbers
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- To pull up by the roots.
- To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
- eradicated
Examples
- Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, root out, uproot, wipe out, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eradicate, erase, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, pull down, pulverize, race, ravage, raze, remove, root up, ruin, stamp out, total, unbreed, unexist, unmake, waste, wipe off, wreck
Scrabble Score: 12
eradicate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worderadicate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
eradicate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary