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Eradication vs Eradicate - What's the difference?

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Eradication is a related term of eradicate.


As a noun eradication

is the act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

As a verb eradicate is

to pull up by the roots; to uproot.

eradication

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting; extirpation; utter destruction.
  • The state of being plucked up by the roots.

    • Related terms

    * eradicate

    Antonyms

    * radication

    eradicate

    English

    Verb

    (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

    Synonyms

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

    Antonyms

    * radicate

    Related terms

    * eradicable * eradication * eradicative * radical * root

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