eradicate

eradicate is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.
2. transitive verb. To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.
3. verb. kill in large numbers

   "the plague wiped out an entire population"

   Synonyms: annihilate, decimate, eliminate, extinguish

4. verb. destroy completely, as if down to the roots "root out corruption"

   "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"

   Synonyms: exterminate, extirpate, uproot

Synonyms

annihilate, decimate, eliminate, extinguish, exterminate, extirpate, uproot

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in eradicate:

acierated

Common word forms

eradicated, eradicates, eradicating

Words from these letters

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