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Interminate vs Eradicate - What's the difference?

interminate | eradicate |

As verbs the difference between interminate and eradicate

is that interminate is (obsolete) to menace; to threaten while eradicate is to pull up by the roots; to uproot.

As an adjective interminate

is without end or limit; boundless; infinite.

interminate

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without end or limit; boundless; infinite.
    • (Chapman)
    Synonyms
    * interminated

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) interminatus, past participle of interminari.

    Verb

    (interminat)
  • (obsolete) To menace; to threaten.
    • (Bishop Hall)
    Related terms
    * minatory (Webster 1913) ----

    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

    External links

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