Terminate vs Eradicate - What's the difference?
terminate | eradicate |
To end, especially in an incomplete state.
* J. S. Harford
To kill.
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
(label) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
To completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
As verbs the difference between terminate and eradicate
is that terminate is to end, especially in an incomplete state while eradicate is to pull up by the roots; to uproot.As an adjective terminate
is terminated; limited; bounded; ended.terminate
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(terminat)Synonyms
* (to end incompletely) discontinue, stop, break off * (to kill) See alsoAntonyms
* (to end incompletely) continueSee also
* abortExternal links
* *Adjective
(en adjective)References
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* English ergative verbs ----eradicate
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(eradicat)- Small pox was globally eradicated in 1980