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eradication

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e·rad·i·cate  (-rd-kt)
tr.v. e·rad·i·cat·ed, e·rad·i·cat·ing, e·rad·i·cates
1. To tear up by the roots.
2. To get rid of as if by tearing up by the roots: Their goal was to eradicate poverty. See Synonyms at abolish, eliminate.
[Middle English eradicaten, from Latin rdcre, rdct- : -, ex-, ex- + rdx, rdc-, root; see wrd- in Indo-European roots.]
e·radi·ca·ble (-k-bl) adj.
e·radi·cation n.
e·radi·cative adj.
e·radi·cator n.
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Noun1.eradication - the complete destruction of every trace of something
obliteration
demolition, wipeout, destruction - an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something
eradication
noun wiping out, abolition, destruction, elimination, removal, extinction, extermination, annihilation, erasure, obliteration, effacement, extirpation, expunction


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The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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