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Radicate vs Erase - What's the difference?

radicate | erase |

As verbs the difference between radicate and erase

is that radicate is to cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly while erase is to remove markings or information.

As an adjective radicate

is rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.

radicate

English

Verb

(radicat)
  • (rare) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
  • (obsolete) To take root; to become established.
  • (Evelyn)
    (to plant or establish firmly) * Italian: (trans-mid) * Japanese: (trans-mid) (trans-bottom)

    Synonyms

    * (to plant or establish firmly) root, settle, ingrain

    Antonyms

    * eradicate * uproot * deracinate

    References

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    Adjective

    (head)
  • Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.
  • (botany) Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe
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    Anagrams

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    erase

    English

    Verb

    (eras)
  • to remove markings or information
  • I erased that note because it was wrong.
  • To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
  • I'm going to erase this tape.
  • To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
  • I'm going to erase those files.
  • (baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
  • Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
  • To be erased .
  • The chalkboard erased easily.
    Her painful memories seemingly erased completely.
    The files will erase quickly.
  • To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
  • * 1998 , Janice Lynn Ristock, ?Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out
  • I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.
  • * 2004 , Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones (page 209)
  • As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.
  • * 2011 , Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies (page 40)
  • Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.

    Derived terms

    * eraser * unerase * erasable * unerasable

    Antonyms

    * (remove markings or information) record

    Anagrams

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