From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisheradicatee‧rad‧i‧cate /ɪˈrædɪkeɪt/ ●○○ verb [transitive] STOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGto completely get rid of something such as a disease or a social problemeradicate something from something We can eradicate this disease from the world. an attempt to eradicate inflation This problem has now been completely eradicated.► see thesaurus at remove —eradication /ɪˌrædɪˈkeɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb table
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eradicate• But this study is designed to determine if, under the right conditions, the virus can be eradicated.• Only when this point is reached will the unemployment in the economy have been eradicated.• He spoke about what is necessary to eradicate AIDS.• Their aim is to eradicate child poverty in the country within 10 years.• In the early 1980s the military began destroying entire villages in an attempt to eradicate civilian support for Leftist guerillas.• All over the world, the spread of the globalized monoculture is forcefully eradicating ecosocial forms of culture that evolved in place.• The disease has been eradicated from the Western world through the use of vaccines.• Do you genuinely and sincerely investigate customer complaints and try to eradicate the causes?• This does not eradicate the distinctiveness of each religion's approach.• The advice often given is to dip heavily-populated rocks in boiling water to eradicate the pest.• The effectiveness of a procedure can, however, also be defined as its ability to eradicate tumour locally.Origin eradicate (1400-1500) Latin past participle of eradicare “to pull out by the root”, from radix “root” 