Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: eradicate
IPA transcription: [ɪɹ'ædək,eɪt]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe_out, decimate, carry_off
    Meaning: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
Usage examples
  • "To eradicate the shopping evil?" laughed the Doctor.
  • As Tom was wheeling the Butterfly into the shed, Eradicate came out to help him.
  • I guess it was Eradicate Sampson, a colored man who does work for us," said Tom.
  • It is a passion easy to deride but hard to understand, and in men who live at all by imagination almost impossible to eradicate.
  • When once the Americans have taken up an idea, whether it be well or ill founded, nothing is more difficult than to eradicate it from their minds.
  • Through the kindness of friends I am enabled to give recipes for medicines considered as useful, or, at any rate, tending to abate the severity of the attack in the one, and utterly eradicate the other.