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eradicate
What does eradicate mean?
eradicate (verb): destroy completely, as if down to the roots.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce eradicate?
/ɪˈɹædəˌkeɪt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does eradicate come from?
From Middle English eradicaten (“to eradicate”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to eradicate
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “eradicate” mean?
destroy completely, as if down to the roots
Right! That's what “eradicate” means.
be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
Not quite: that's what insist means.
make more intense, stronger, or more marked
Not quite: that's what compound means.
to change greatly the appearance or form of
Not quite: that's what transform means.
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