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The complete destruction of every trace of something
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eradication
Word definitions for eradication in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The word " Eradication " is derived from Latin word "radix" which means "root". It may refer to: Genocide , the deliberate, systematic destruction of an ethnic, religious or national group of people Eradication of infectious diseases , the reduction of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eradication \E*rad`i*ca"tion\, n. [L. eradicatio: cf. F. The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction. The state of being plucked up by the roots.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the complete destruction of every trace of something [syn: obliteration ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin eradicationem (nominative eradicatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of eradicare "root out, extirpate, annihilate," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex- ) + radix (genitive radicis ) "root" (see radish ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting; extirpation; utter destruction. 2 The state of being plucked up by the roots.
Usage examples of eradication.
As you know, we have begun our process of eliminating dogs, but as the eradication of all pets is our ultimate goal and part of our ongoing effort to bring Corban into the Bonita Vista family, it has been suggested that we begin killing cats.
Mystery Mutant Exon, or my suspicion that the eradication therapy might not be permanent.
But the allomorph eradication process used a different, simpler technique for transferring DNA.
Gala immediately give me everything they have concerning the allomorph trait eradication and demiclone procedures that they developed for the Haluk.
Are you willing to obtain and hand over to Delegate Efrem Sontag all information pertaining to the allomorph trait eradication and demiclone procedures developed by Galapharma for the Haluk, including details and locations of all clandestine demiclone labs that were or are now in operation, plus the total number of human-Haluk demiclones produced there?
Emily Konigsberg that the only viral vector suitable for allomorph eradication therapy was not one under patent to Galapharma Amalgamated Concern.
As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.
In Africa, amazing progress has been made in the eradication of the tsetse fly using baited traps made from plastic bags, a few feet of cloth, and some staples.
Beatrice Mangan provide Macrodur with a copy of the Tokyo research confirming eradication of the allomorphic trait in the body through substitution of human DNA.
As you know, we have begun our process of eliminating dogs, but as the eradication of all pets is our ultimate goal and part of our ongoing effort to bring Corban into the Bonita Vista family, it has been suggested that we begin killing cats.
The Germans are playacting here an elaborate denial of their central effort in this war, the eradication of a people and of two world religions.
Arts 1, FedFacts, NetSearch, NetTeach, NetAgent, and MultiMail put the basic elements of interactivity in the living rooms of the two flavors of underclass that had resisted eradication - one economic, the other intellectual.
No recorded case of an identity reestablishing itself after a court-ordered eradication has been carried out.
I made some coffee and called Bowden for a long chat, trying to find out what else had changed since Landen's eradication.
We had conjured up writing that wasn't there, read impressions and restored eradications, the concept really very simple even if the execution of it was not.