Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1transitive verb
To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.
- 2transitive verb
To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.
- 3verb
kill in large numbers
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
- 4verb
destroy completely, as if down to the roots "root out corruption"
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
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