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Eradicate   /ɪrˈædəkˌeɪt/   Listen
Eradicate

verb
(past & past part. eradicated; pres. part. eradicating)
1.
Kill in large numbers.  Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, extinguish, wipe out.
2.
Destroy completely, as if down to the roots.  Synonyms: exterminate, extirpate, root out, uproot.  "Root out corruption"






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"Eradicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... gipsies, his host should seize the occasion to expatiate on the history of that extraordinary race; tracing them from the Egyptians downwards, and waxing eloquent on their tribal instincts, which no civilisation or even persecution could eradicate or domesticate. ...
— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... with pursuits for which nature and education had fitted them; whilst the power and works of men of genius would be many times increased and multiplied if their education were adapted to strengthen and develop their talents, eradicate their faults, ...
— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)

... the stage or lecture platform does not always eradicate shyness. David Garrick, the great actor, was once summoned to testify in court; and, though he had acted for thirty years with marked self-possession, he was so confused and embarrassed that the judge dismissed him. John B. Gough said that he could not rid ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... enjoined; and considering the Catholic religion as the great bulwark of kingly power, by the intolerance of the Church teaching the benighted multitudes subjection to civil intolerance, Ferdinand, with unceasing vigilance, and with melancholy success, endeavored to eradicate the Lutheran doctrines from the kingdom. He established the most rigorous censorship of the press, and would allow no foreign work, unexamined, to enter the realm. He established in Bohemia the fanatic order of the Jesuits, and intrusted to them ...
— The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power • John S. C. Abbott

... with the conviction, that his virtues were his own, his libertinism the fault of education, or rather want of education, and the corrupting advice of sycophants and flatterers. She could not know, or perhaps did not in that moment consider, that in a soil where no care is taken to eradicate tares, they will outgrow and smother the wholesome seed, even if the last is more natural to the soil. For, as Dr. Rochecliffe informed her afterwards for her edification, promising, as was his custom, to explain ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott


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