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1. Kill in large numbers
   "the plague eradicated an entire population"
   - eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, wipe out, decimate, carry off
    
2. Destroy completely, as if down to the roots
   "the vestiges of political democracy were soon eradicated" "root out corruption"
   - uproot, extirpate, root out, exterminate

Derived forms: eradicates, eradicated, eradicating

See also: eradication, eradicator

Type of: destroy, destruct, kill, spifflicate, spiflicate

Encyclopedia: Eradicate