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1. Kill in large numbers
   "the plague eradicated an entire population";
   - eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, wipe out, decimate, carry off
    
2. Remove, destroy or wipe out completely
   "the vestiges of political democracy were soon eradicated";
   - uproot, extirpate [formal], root out, exterminate

Derived forms: eradicated, eradicates, eradicating

Type of: destroy, destruct, kill, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]

Encyclopedia: Eradicate