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Radicates vs Eradicates - What's the difference?

radicates | eradicates |

As verbs the difference between radicates and eradicates

is that radicates is (radicate) while eradicates is (eradicate).

radicates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (radicate)

  • 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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    eradicates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (eradicate)

  • 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