Eradicate

Definitions: Eradicate

Eradicate

Verb

1. Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population".

2. Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted".

Date "eradicate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Eradicate \E*rad"i*cate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Eradicated; present participle verb or noun Eradicating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Eradicate

Synonyms: annihilate (v), carry off (v), decimate (v), eliminate (v), exterminate (v), extinguish (v), extirpate (v), uproot (v), wipe out (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Destruction	Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.
Extraction	Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Eradicate

English words defined with "eradicate": anti-racketeering law ♦ Eradicated, Eradicating, Eradicative ♦ Outroot ♦ Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO, RICO Act ♦ to pluck up ♦ Unroot. (references)

Specialty definitions using "eradicate": Bovine tuberculosis ♦ curative fungicide ♦ Federal Noxious Weed Act ♦ National Scrapies Plan ♦ Ranitidine Bismuth Citrate, Ranitidine Hydrochloride. (references)

Etymologies containing "eradicate": Arace ♦ Radish. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	How to Cultivate Virtues and Eradicate VIC (reference) Need for new strategies to eradicate poverty (reference) Overcoming Violence Against Woman and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a World-Wide Problem (reference) Positive Measures Designed to Eradicate All Incitement To, or Acts Of, Racial Discrimination: Implementation of the International Conventio/85Xiv2 (reference) Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	People's Century: Living Longer - Science Helps Eradicate Mass Diseases (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Eradicate (reference) Eradicate [EXPLICIT LYRICS] [IMPORT] (reference) Fight the Future Eradicate the Past [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	Global partnership to eradicate polio.Credit: CDC.		Measles immunication campaign poster display at the Eradicate Measles Exhibit in 1972.Credit: CDC.
	In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States, such as spraying for mosquitos using a hand-held compressed air sprayer.Credit: CDC.		In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States.Credit: CDC.
	In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States.Credit: CDC.		In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States.Credit: CDC.
	In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States. This field technician is looking for larvae in standing water containers.Credit: CDC.		In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States, such as spraying for mosquitos using a hand-held compressed air sprayer.Credit: CDC.
	Vegetation in the water and around the creek. The restoration will eradicate the invasive Phragmites australis and restore the area with a diverse set of native wetland plants.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
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Author	Quotation
St. Jerome	Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Author	Date	Quotation
John F. Kennedy	1961	Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. (reference)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		But used alone, these drugs do not eradicate H. pylori and therefore do not cure H. pylori-related ulcers. (references)
		Most of those cases were from Sudan where the ongoing civil war makes it impossible to eradicate the disease. (references)
		The primary treatment for leukemia is combination chemotherapy, where two or more anticancer medications are used to control or eradicate the disease. (references)
Children	Korea	In addition, as part of a campaign to eradicate child prostitution and sexual offenses against minors, the Government enacted the Child Protection against Sexual Offenses Law in 2000. It established a maximum sentence of imprisonment of 20 years for the sale of the sexual services of persons less than 19 years of age. (references)
Civil Liberties	Iran	However, it appears to be an accurate reflection of government practice to slowly eradicate the Baha'i community. (references)
Economic History	Bahrain	As is found to be the case globally, software piracy has been much more difficult to eradicate. (references)
Indigenous People	Malaysia	The federal budget for the year provided for a $26 million (100 million RM) allotment to the Orang Asli community to eradicate poverty, improve education and social welfare, and improve infrastructure of resettlement villages. (references)
Political Economy	Sudan	One local NGO is working to eradicate FGM. Prostitution is illegal; however, it is a growing problem, including among university students, although there is no sex tourism industry. (references)
	INDIA	Efforts to eradicate the practice are complicated by extreme poverty and jurisdictional disputes between the central and state governments; legislation is a central government function, while enforcement is the responsibility of the states. (references)
Women	Gambia	In recent years, the Government publicly has supported efforts to eradicate FGM and discouraged FGM through health education; however, the Government has not passed legislation against FGM, which is not considered a criminal act. (references)
	Sierra Leone	No law prohibits FGM. A number of NGO's are working to inform the public about the harmful health effects of FGM and to eradicate it; however, active resistance by secret societies countered the well-publicized international efforts against FGM. Prostitution is widespread. (references)
	Nigeria	The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, The Nigerian Women's Association, and the Nigerian Medical Association worked to eradicate the practice and to train health care workers on the medical effects of FGM; however, contact with health care workers remains limited. (references)
Worker Rights	Burma	Government troops also forced villagers to eradicate opium poppy fields. (references)
	Brazil	The CPT is the leading NGO working to identify and eradicate forced labor. (references)
	Nepal	The private sector has made its own efforts to eradicate child labor, especially in the carpet industry. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	The American Theatre has exhibited proofs that equal and complete liberty, if it does not wholly eradicate it, sufficiently destroys its malignant influence on the health and prosperity of the State.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Eradicate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 93.44% of the time. "Eradicate" is used about 244 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	93.44%	228	19,909
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.92%	12	101,599
Noun (singular)	1.64%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	244	N/A

Expression using "eradicate": eradicate poverty. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "eradicate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhduk (bump off, conceal, disperse, efface, hide, kill, obliterate, overturn, Rob, stave off, steal, wipe, wipe out), çrrënjos (deracinate, exterminate, extirpate, uproot). (various references)

Arabic		‏محا (blot out, deface, efface, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, obliterate, rub out, scratch out, sponge out, wipe off, wipe out), ‏إستأصل (deracinate, enucleate, excise, extirpate, grub, root, stub), ‏إجتث (root, uproot, winkle out), ‏أباد (annihilate, destroy, devour, exterminate, extirpate, mow, polish off). (various references)

Bulgarian		премахвам (cut out, delete, do away, do away with, eliminate, kill, level, make away with, obviate, put down, remove, rid, rip out, smooth, undo), изкоренявам (deracinate, do away with, exscind, exterminate, extirpate, pluck off, pluck up, root out, root up, unroot, uproot, weed out). (various references)

Chinese		吃 (destroy, eat, receive, stammer), � �除 (Eradicated, Eradicating), � (pull up), 剷除 (root out). (various references)

Czech		vymýtit (hack out, root out), vykořenit (extirpate, root, root up, unroot, uproot), vyhladit (annihilate, blot out, erase, even, even out, exterminate, obliterate, wipe out). (various references)

Dutch		ontwortelen (digging rooted vines, to disroot, to root out, to unroot). (various references)

Esperanto		elradikigi. (various references)

Finnish		hävittää juurineen (destroy root and branch, root out). (various references)

French		arracher. (various references)

German		ausrotten (destroy, exterminate, extirpate, kill off, stamp out, to eradicate, to exterminate, to extirpate, uproot, wipe out). (various references)

Greek		ξεριζώνω (dig up, extirpate, tear up, uproot, weed out), εκρίζω (extirpate, grub, rout, stub, uproot). (various references)

Hebrew		לעקור (extirpate, pluck, pull out, pull up, uproot, yank), ל� סוח (pull down, tear away, uproot). (various references)

Hungarian		kipusztít (exterminate, extirpate, to eradicate, to exterminate, to obliterate), kiírt (exterminate, to obliterate), gyökereztet. (various references)

Indonesian		membasmi (annihilate, deracinate, exterminate), basmi (burn off, exterminate). (various references)

Italian		sradicare (pull up, root out, root up, stub, to disroot, to root out, to transplant, to unroot, uproot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		絶やす (to eradicate, to exterminate, to letgo out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たやす (to eradicate, to exterminate, to letgo out). (various references)

Manx		cur jerrey er (conclude, cry off, discontinue, eliminate, extinguish, finish, resolve, sweep away), astyrt (abolish, abolition, dig out, eradication), astyral (abolish, dig out). (various references)

Norwegian		utrydde (exterminate, extinguish). (various references)

Pig Latin		eradicateay

Portuguese		erradicar, irradiação (flux of radiation per unit area, incident solar radiation, insolation, irradiance, irradiation, radiant flux density, radiation, solar irradiation), arrancarcomaraiz. (various references)

Romanian		extirpa (excise, exscind, extirpate, remove), extermina (blot, exterminate, extirpate), eradica, stinge (allay, annihilate, annul, appease, baste, choke, die, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, hush, quench, quit, silence, slack, slake, smother, wither), stârpi (abolish, destroy, root, uproot, weed out), dezrãdãcina (deracinate, disroot, exterminate, extirpate, stub up, uproot). (various references)

Russian		вырывать с корнем (deracinate, disroot, root out, uproot), искоренять (deracinate, disroot, exterminate, extirpate, kill out, root out, unroot, uproot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		iskoreniti (deracinate, destroy, do away with, exterminate, extirpate, root, root out, root up, unroot, uproot). (various references)

Spanish		erradicar. (various references)

Swedish		utrota (deracinate, exterminate, extirpate, kill, root out). (various references)

Thai		กำจั�"จนหม�"สิ้น. (various references)

Turkish		yok etmek (charm away, clear off, cut off, cut up, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, do away with, efface, eliminate, end, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, make away with, shatter, spirit away, spirit off, sponge out, stamp, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out), kökünden sökmek (disroot, extirpate, root away, root out, root up, stub, stub up, tear up, uproot), kökünden halletmek (clinch, extirpate), kökünü kurutmak (eat up, exterminate). (various references)

Ukranian		виривати з коренем (deracinate, extirpate, outroot), викорінювати (deracinate, disroot, extirpate, outroot). (various references)

Welsh		diwreiddio (uproot). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	eradicabit, eradicabitur, eradicare, eradicat, eradicationem, eradicaverit, eradicem, eradicetis. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "eradicate": eradicated, eradicates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Eradicate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eradicale, eradicat, eradicte, eraticate, erradicat, erradicate, iradicate, radicata, Readicut. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "eradicate" (pronounced ira"dukā't)
5	-d u k ā' t	abdicate, dedicate, indicate, predicate, rededicate.
4	-u k ā' t	allocate, aluminosilicate, authenticate, communicate, complicate, deprecate, domesticate, educate, equivocate, excommunicate, extricate, fabricate, intoxicate, misallocate, pontificate, prognosticate, reciprocate, reeducate, replicate, suffocate.
3	-k ā' t	adjudicate, bifurcate, cheapskate, confiscate, implicate, inculcate, locate, lubricate, medicate, obfuscate, prefabricate, sophisticate, truncate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: acierated.
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-r-t"
	-1 letter: acerated, acierate, eradiate, radicate.
	-2 letters: acerate, aerated, airdate, cardiae, catered, cerated, created, deciare, radiate, reacted, recited, tiaraed, tierced.
	-3 letters: acarid, acedia, aerate, aeried, airted, arcade, carate, cardia, caried, carted, cerate, cerite, crated, create, credit, dearie, decare, deceit, deicer, derate, dieter, direct, ecarte, ideate, recite, redact, redate, rediae, reedit, retied, teared, tierce, tiered, tirade.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-r-t"
	+1 letter: deracinate, eradicated, eradicates.
	+2 letters: appreciated, ascertained, declarative, deracinated, deracinates, reactivated.
	+3 letters: accreditable, incarcerated, intercalated, prevaricated, reacquainted, recalibrated, reincarnated, revaccinated.
	+4 letters: characterized, declaratively, prefabricated, rearticulated, recapitalized, recapitulated, sectarianized, unappreciated.
	+5 letters: bureaucratised, bureaucratized, collateralized, interdialectal, pancreatitides, reacclimatized, recontaminated, scatterbrained, straitjacketed, theatricalized.
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