Eradicate vs Extinguish - What's the difference?
eradicate | extinguish |
To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
To completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
to destroy or abolish something
* 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
to obscure or eclipse something
(psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
(literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
Extinguish is a synonym of eradicate.
In transitive terms the difference between eradicate and extinguish
is that eradicate is to completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate while extinguish is to obscure or eclipse something.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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* * ----extinguish
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Verb
(es)- She extinguished all my hopes.
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- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi , lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
- The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
