eradicateverb [ T ]
uk/ɪˈræd.ɪ.keɪt/us/ɪˈræd.ɪ.keɪt/formalC2 to get rid of something completely or destroy something bad:
The government claims to be doing all it can to eradicate corruption.
The disease that once claimed millions of lives has now been eradicated.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- haemodialysis
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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eradication
noun [ U ] uk/ɪˌræd.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ɪˌræd.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/