eradicate

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

   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.

• “eradicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “eradicate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• acierated

eradicate

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

eradicate

1. feminine plural of eradicato

ērādīcāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ērādīcō