eradicate
verb
[ ɪˈradɪkeɪt ]
• destroy completely; put an end to.
• "this disease has been eradicated from the world"
Similar:
get rid of,
eliminate,
do away with,
remove,
suppress,
exterminate,
destroy,
annihilate,
extirpate,
obliterate,
kill,
wipe out,
liquidate,
decimate,
finish off,
abolish,
stamp out,
extinguish,
quash,
wipe off the face of the earth,
wipe off the map,
erase,
efface,
excise,
expunge,
root out,
uproot,
weed out,
zap,
deracinate,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘pull up by the roots’): from Latin eradicat- ‘torn up by the roots’, from the verb eradicare, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out’ + radix, radic- ‘root’.
