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Answer for the clue "Root out ", 9 letters:
eradicate

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Word definitions for eradicate in dictionaries

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v. kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate , annihilate , extinguish , wipe out , decimate , carry off ] destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: ...

Usage examples of eradicate.

Coochie had left and not actually expecting that things would be different: and I should have known better, as each wife in turn, Coochie included, had done her best to eradicate all signs of her predecessor.

Since Landen had been eradicated I had discovered that I could bring him back to life in my memories and my dreams, and I had begun to look forward to falling asleep and returning to treasured moments which we could share, albeit only fleetingly.

He was eradicated by your buddies in the ChronoGuard seventeen years ago.

Dad said later that Scintilla had been a truly great fighter for the cause but his drive had left him when they eradicated his best friend and partner.

The League can barely wipe their own noses, and they eradicated Omnius on every Synchronized World except Corrin, where he hides behind all his weapons.

That one has a skin disease that the pink can eradicate in two minutes.

Be that as it may, the disapproval existed and while accepting that it could not eradicate drink as a social vice while large sections of the community regarded it as a social grace, the church expected its Preaching Brothers to inveigh against it heavily from time to time.

British clergy incessantly labored to eradicate the Pelagian heresy, which they abhorred, as the peculiar disgrace of their native country.

Whatever credit Monte could take for finishing The Shadow, it was Napper who had eradicated the evidence.

Titus needed a computer magazine, Pandora had to buy something to eradicate a minuscule crop of spots that had erupted on her chin, their baby sister Damp required more nappies and their parents, Signer and Signora Strega-Borgia, had to go to the bank and do boring adult stuff.

No, if we really are so calculating and hard-hearted, would it not be better, having jumped down, simply to whack the fallen servant on the head again and again with the same pestle, so as to kill him finally, and, having eradicated the witness, to put all worry out of our mind?

Sixth Avenue at 46th Street, came upon the recent scene of so much reptilian-oriented turmoil, and encountered little more than moist patches of concrete and a few spots where the acid in the blood of the now-vanished pteranodon had managed to eradicate the lane stripes of Sixth Avenue.

The council sponsored segregationist radio and TV shows, school essay contests, and propaganda mailings, and kept files on white citizens to eradicate any glimmerings of dissent.

It not only cleanses, purifies, regulates, and builds up the system to a healthy standard, and conquers throat, bronchial, and lung complications, when any such exist, but, from its specific effects upon the lining membrane of the nasal passages, it aids materially in restoring the diseased, thickened, or ulcerated membrane to a healthy condition, and thus eradicates the disease.

It had been hoped that his grace had either eradicated all such unnatural creatures from his lands years ago, or at least made them understand that his duchy was a most unsalubrious climate for such subhumans as they.