Inculcate vs Eradicate - What's the difference?
inculcate | eradicate |
To teach by repeated instruction.
To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.
To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
To completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
In transitive terms the difference between inculcate and eradicate
is that inculcate is to induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons while eradicate is to completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.inculcate
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(inculcat)Quotations
{{timeline, 1900s=}} * 1932': Wordless conditioning ... cannot '''inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. — ''Brave New World , Aldous Huxley * 1943': The right defense against false sentiments is to '''inculcate just sentiments. — ''The Abolition of Man , C. S. Lewiseradicate
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(eradicat)- Small pox was globally eradicated in 1980
