eradicate
/əˈræd.əˌkeɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.29 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: delete, erase"
- "Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980."
- "I would like to know if there are any true moralists who would like to correspond with someone who just instinctively feels there's something wrong somewhere in this unbenevolent world and wants to save it by culminating love and eradicating the captive emotions of the self (Ego)."
- "Thus far, virtually every cinematic attempt to convey the outrages of South African life under apartheid has been diminished by its own good intentions and by a grim sameness that eradicates any element of surprise."
- "She put a banner for the One Campaign, an effort to eradicate poverty in the third world led by U2's singer Bono, on her LJ […]"
- "The germinal matrix in this area is then eradicated either by surgical or chemical matrixectomy using phenol or NaOH."
Etymology
PIE word *wréh₂ds From Middle English eradicaten (“to eradicate”), from eradicat(e) (“eradicated”, past participle of eradicaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin ērādīcātus, the perfect passive participle of ērādīcō (“to uproot, root out; to anihilate, eradicate”), from ē- (“out”) + rādīx (“root”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also radish.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: eradicaten, ērādīcātus, eradicat
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈræd.əˌkeɪt/