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eradicate
Overview of verb eradicate
The verb eradicate has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off -- (kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population")
2. uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate -- (destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption")
Antonyms of verb eradicate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb eradicate
2 senses of eradicate
Sense 1
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> kill
Sense 2
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
=> destroy, destruct
=> unmake, undo
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb eradicate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb eradicate
2 senses of eradicate
Sense 1
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> kill
Sense 2
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
=> destroy, destruct
'Cause To' of verb eradicate
Derived Forms of verb eradicate
1 of 2 senses of eradicate
Sense 2
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
RELATED TO>(noun) eradication#1
=> eradication, obliteration
RELATED TO>(noun) eradicator#1
=> exterminator, terminator, eradicator
Domain of verb eradicate
Domain Terms of verb eradicate
Familiarity of verb eradicate
eradicate used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb eradicate
2 senses of eradicate
Sense 1
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
Sense 2
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb eradicate
2 senses of eradicate
Sense 1
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
> kill
=> eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> decimate
=> drown
=> massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> erase, wipe out
=> butcher, slaughter
=> poison
=> stone, lapidate
=> poison
=> commit suicide
=> dispatch
=> zap, vaporize
=> sacrifice
=> take off
=> tomahawk
=> destroy
=> saber, sabre
=> overlie, overlay
=> brain
=> put away, put to sleep
=> neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
=> exterminate, kill off
=> smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
=> strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> decapitate, behead, decollate
=> impale, stake
=> dismember
=> martyr
=> shed blood
=> murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> assassinate
=> execute, put to death
=> draw, quarter, draw and quarter
=> lynch
=> shoot, pip
=> electrocute, fry
Sense 2
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
> destroy, destruct
=> kill
=> eliminate, get rid of, do away with
=> self-destruct, self-destroy
=> destruct
=> end
=> fracture
=> wipe out, sweep away
=> interdict
=> demolish, pulverize, pulverise
=> disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart
=> level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down
=> uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
=> dilapidate
=> demyelinate
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb eradicate
Sense 1
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> kill
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Sense 2
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
=> destroy, destruct
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Grep of verb eradicate
eradicate
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