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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eradicate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ In the early 1980s the military began destroying entire villages in an attempt to eradicate civilian support for Leftist guerillas.
▪ Throughout this period, an increasing emphasis was placed on tight monetary policy in an attempt to eradicate inflation.
disease
▪ This aid would also have to be continued in the longer term in order to totally eradicate certain diseases.
▪ The editorial also took the position that isolation would not eradicate the disease.
▪ The aim is to eradicate the disease for good.
▪ Malcolm Dean on the all-out bid to kill off elephantiasis History in the breaking How do you eradicate a disease?
pylori
▪ Demanding oral triple therapy eradicates H pylori in up to 96% of patients treated but does have considerable side effects.
▪ Bismuth has also become popular in recent years as a treatment in peptic ulcer to eradicate Helicobacter pylori.
▪ Omeprazole monotherapy merely suppressed bacterial colonisation, especially in the antral region, and eradicated H pylori in individual cases only.
▪ It therefore seems justified to recommend amoxicillin/omeprazole as the treatment of choice to eradicate H pylori in H pylori related gastroduodenal diseases.
■ VERB
try
▪ Do you genuinely and sincerely investigate customer complaints and try to eradicate the causes?
▪ Under Anne, High Churchmen became preoccupied with trying to eradicate the practice of occasional conformity.
▪ It is what management and business schools try to eradicate through education and training.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He spoke about what is necessary to eradicate AIDS.
▪ The disease has been eradicated from the Western world through the use of vaccines.
▪ Their aim is to eradicate child poverty in the country within 10 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All over the world, the spread of the globalized monoculture is forcefully eradicating ecosocial forms of culture that evolved in place.
▪ But this study is designed to determine if, under the right conditions, the virus can be eradicated.
▪ Do you genuinely and sincerely investigate customer complaints and try to eradicate the causes?
▪ In the early 1980s the military began destroying entire villages in an attempt to eradicate civilian support for Leftist guerillas.
▪ Only when this point is reached will the unemployment in the economy have been eradicated.
▪ 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.
▪ This does not eradicate the distinctiveness of each religion's approach.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eradicate

Eradicate \E*rad"i*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eradicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Eradicating.] [L. eradicatus, p. p. of eradicare to eradicate; e out + radix, radicis, root. See Radical.]

  1. To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.

  2. To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.

    This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment.
    --Southey.

    Syn: To extirpate; root out; exterminate; destroy; annihilate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eradicate

early 15c., "destroy utterly," literally "pull up by the roots," from Latin eradicatus, past participle of eradicare "to root out, annihilate" (see eradication). Related: Eradicated; eradicating; eradicable.

Wiktionary
eradicate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To pull up by the roots; to uproot. 2 (context transitive English) To completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.

WordNet
eradicate

  1. v. 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]

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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.