eradicate

About 1.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To pull up by the roots.
2. verb To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.

   Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.

3. participle eradicated

Similar words

extirpate uproot wipe out extinguish exterminate annihilate eliminate carry off decimate obliterate

Often followed by

the it all them poverty this from a these

Word family

eradicable eradicated eradicates eradicating eradication eradications eradicator eradicators