Expunge vs Eradicate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between expunge and eradicate

is that expunge is to erase or strike out while eradicate is to pull up by the roots; to uproot.

(expung)

To erase or strike out.

To eliminate completely; annihilate.

* expunction

(eradicat)

To pull up by the roots; to uproot.

To completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.

Small pox was globally eradicated in 1980

* (to pull up by the roots): root up, uproot * (to completely destroy): annihilate, exterminate, extirpate * See also

* radicate

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