eradicate

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e·rad·i·cate /ɪˈrædɪkeɪt/ verb [transitiveT]

STOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGto completely get rid of something such as a disease or a social problem 根除；消滅

eradicate something from something

We can eradicate this disease from the world.

我們能把這種疾病從世界上根除。

an attempt to eradicate inflation

爲消除通貨膨脹所作的努力

This problem has now been completely eradicated.

這個問題現已徹底杜絕。

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—eradication /ɪˌrædɪˈkeɪʃən/ noun [uncountableU]

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eradicate• But this study is designed to determine if, under the right conditions, the virus can be eradicated.• Only when this point is reached will the unemployment in the economy have been eradicated.• He spoke about what is necessary to eradicate AIDS.• Their aim is to eradicate child poverty in the country within 10 years.• In the early 1980s the military began destroying entire villages in an attempt to eradicate civilian support for Leftist guerillas.• All over the world, the spread of the globalized monoculture is forcefully eradicating ecosocial forms of culture that evolved in place.• The disease has been eradicated from the Western world through the use of vaccines.• Do you genuinely and sincerely investigate customer complaints and try to eradicate the causes?• This does not eradicate the distinctiveness of each religion's approach.• The advice often given is to dip heavily-populated rocks in boiling water to eradicate the pest.• The effectiveness of a procedure can, however, also be defined as its ability to eradicate tumour locally.

Origin eradicate

(1400-1500) Latin past participle of eradicare “to pull out by the root”, from radix “root”

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