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/icons/point.icon EXTERMINATE, EXTIRPATE, ERADICATE, UPROOT mean to effect the destruction or abolition of something.
EXTERMINATE implies complete and immediate extinction by killing off all individuals.
e.g. exterminate cockroaches
EXTIRPATE implies extinction of a race, family, species, or sometimes an idea or doctrine by destruction or removal of its means of propagation.
e.g. many species have been extirpated from the area
ERADICATE implies the driving out or elimination of something that has established itself.
e.g. a campaign to eradicate illiteracy
UPROOT implies a forcible or violent removal and stresses displacement or dislodgment rather than immediate destruction.
e.g. the war uprooted thousands
verb with object
destroy completely; put an end to:
«…から» 〈病気･社会問題･害虫など〉を根絶［撲滅］する, 〈雑草など〉を根こそぎにする(wipe out) «from»
e.g. this disease has been eradicated from the world.
DERIVATIVES
eradicable |əˈradəkəb(ə)l| adjective
eradicant |-kənt| noun
eradicator |-ˌkātər| noun
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’.