Dictionary Definition

eradicate

1 kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, wipe out, decimate, carry off]

2 destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: uproot, extirpate, exterminate]

User Contributed Dictionary

From eradicatus, past participle of ērādīcō "uproot", from e- "out" + radix "root".

wikt eradication Eradication is the elimination or destruction of a thing or group.

Eradication may also refer to:

Genocide, the deliberate, systematic destruction of an ethnic, religious or national group of people
Eradication of infectious diseases, a public health effort
Intentional local extinction, or extirpation, of an introduced species
Intentional extermination of a population of insects or vermin as part of pest control

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