Eradicate vs Efface - What's the difference?
eradicate | efface |
To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
To completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
* 1825 , , The Talisman , A.L. Burt Company (1832?), 15:
To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out]] or [[strike out, striking out.
(reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
(medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
In transitive terms the difference between eradicate and efface
is that eradicate is to completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate while efface is to cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.eradicate
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Verb
(eradicat)- Small pox was globally eradicated in 1980
Synonyms
* (to pull up by the roots): root up, uproot * (to completely destroy): annihilate, exterminate, extirpate * See alsoAntonyms
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* * ----efface
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Verb
(effac)- Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.
- An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.
- Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.
- Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.
- Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.