eradicate

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Margaret's heart that she could not entirely eradicate, and a sleeping antipathy to the house of Hers that at times betrayed itself to her watchful self-examination.

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  1. transitive verb To tear up by the roots.
  2. transitive verb To get rid of as if by tearing up by the roots: Their goal was to eradicate poverty. See Synonyms at abolish, eliminate.

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  • I found that there were lots of searches for terms such as eradicate wasps and wasp delivery system so I optimised my site for these terms (eradicate-wasps. com) and wrote an ebook on the topic. —  Digital Point Forums
  • These and other such opinions I did not long strive to eradicate, attributing them rather to a defective education and senses untuned by too long familiarity with purely natural objects, than to a perverted moral sense. —  The Biglow Papers
  • Time modifies but does not eradicate, and the modern King Cophetua marries not the beggar, but the bar-maid The conversation fell in silence, full of consternation; and all wondered if the two ladies in front had understood, and they were really bar-maids. —  Mike Fletcher A Novel
  • It was a deep-rooted custom to eradicate, and powerful influences, in the form of thousands of small storekeepers, were at work upon local officials to pay no heed to the agitation. —  A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
  • Yet there was a lurking family pride in Margaret's heart that she could not entirely eradicate, and a sleeping antipathy to the house of Hers that at times betrayed itself to her watchful self-examination. —  The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century
 

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eradicate:   eradicating ·  eradicated
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  1. Middle English eradicaten, from Latin ērādīcāre, ērādīcāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + rādīx, rādīc-, root; see wrād- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin eradicatus, past participle of eradicare (later Italian eradicare = Old French eradiquer, erradiquer, vernacularly aracier, arachier, French arracher: see arace), root out, from c, out, + radix (radic-), a root: see radical, etc.
 

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/əˈrædɪkeɪt/
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