eradication

Meaning

1. The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
2. The state of being plucked up by the roots.

Synonyms

extirpation

annihilation

uprooting

extermination

destruction

elimination

obliteration

removal

deletion

abolition

cancellation

extinction

deposal

abolishment

negation

abrogation

annulment

tearing down

act of uprooting

plucking up by the roots

putting an end

abolish

rooting out

abrasion

boring

cut off

destroying

disposal

erasure

evulsion

exterminate

extinguish

extinguishment

extirpating

lapse

pulling up

shifting

complete destruction

laying waste

Translations

éradication

erradicação

erradicación

Ausrottung

estirpazione

sradicamento

abrogation

εκρίζωση

Niederschlagung

ξερίζωμα

محو

Eradikation

Zurücknahme

κατάργηση

Abschaffung

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ērādīcātiō, from ērādīcō + -tiō, from ē- (“out”) + rādīx (“root”) + -ō. Equivalent to eradicate + -ion or e- (“without”) + radication.