0 past simple and past participle of eradicate
1 to get rid of something completely or destroy something bad:
The government claims to be doing all it can to eradicate corruption.
The disease that once claimed millions of lives has now been eradicated.
Theoretically, short-term tocolytic treatment could reduce uterine contractions while initiating factors are being eradicated.
Yet we need to remind ourselves that ageism cannot be eradicated by non-ageist language alone.
However, democracy has not yet eradicated either gender discrimination, dependence on the diaspora or poverty.
For infant mortality, on the other hand, there is an endogenous component involving many causes of death which were less easily eradicated.
The crux of the matter is that this dichotomy needs to be eradicated or at the minimum reduced.
However, the mainland squatters had to persist with nightly yarding until dingoes were eradicated.
A disease can only be eradicated if it is eliminated everywhere in nature.
Tumors over 1.5 cm were not reliably eradicated with cryoablation.
