Devastate vs Eradicate - What's the difference?
devastate | eradicate |
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
To completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
As verbs the difference between devastate and eradicate
is that devastate is to ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest while eradicate is to pull up by the roots; to uproot.devastate
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(devastat)External links
* * * ----eradicate
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(eradicat)- Small pox was globally eradicated in 1980
