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Answer for the clue "Eradicate ", 6 letters:
unroot

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Word definitions for unroot in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To tear up by the roots; to uproot.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unroot \Un*root"\, v. i. To be torn up by the roots. --Beau. & Fl.

Usage examples of unroot.

A thick tree trunk had been unrooted and hurled several yards, and pine trees eighteen inches thick were said to have been twisted in different directions and curled up.

She'd always seemed too restless and unrooted to take the time to clutter her life with things.

Here and there, unrooted and snapped, were some unheeded pieces of dead twig.

Reaching deeper into himself, the Supreme Overlord used his telekinetic powers to create cracks in the bulkheads and ceiling, hoping to add chunks of unrooted yorik coral to his conjured storm.

The unrooting was apparently triggered by the sun's rays falling on the single leaf atop the head, so the more objects scattered about blocked the sun's first rays, the slower one was to be freed.