Definition of eradicate Eradicate

/ɪɹæˈdʌkejˌt/ - [iratdukeyt] - e•rad•i•cate

We found 10 definitions of eradicate from 6 different sources.

What does eradicate mean?

Verb eradicates, eradicating, eradicated
eradicate - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
		eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, wipe out, decimate, carry off
		kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
eradicate - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
		uproot, extirpate, root out, exterminate
		destruct, destroy destroy (one's own missile or rocket); "The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons"

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eradicate (v. t.)
To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.
eradicate (v. t.)
To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.

eradicate
e-rad′i-kāt, v.t. to pull up by the roots: to destroy.—adj. Erad′icable, that may be eradicated.—p.adj. Erad′icāted, rooted up: (her.) said of a tree, or part of a tree, torn up by the roots.—n. Eradicā′tion, the act of eradicating: state of being eradicated.—adj. Erad′icātive, serving to eradicate or drive thoroughly away.—n. Erad′icātor. [L. eradicāre, to root out—e, out, radix, radicis, a root.]