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Eradication vs Uprooting - What's the difference?

eradication | uprooting |

As nouns the difference between eradication and uprooting

is that eradication is the act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting; extirpation; utter destruction while uprooting is a tearing up.

As a verb uprooting is

present participle of 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

    uprooting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tearing up.
  • * 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew
    • This was reproduced by the only sound that broke their supreme embrace when, a month later, the "arrangement," as her periodical uprootings were called, played the part of the horrible forceps.
  • * 1920 , Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence