0 present 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.
Eradicating inertia and getting people to take an interest in pension planning are explicit objectives of government policy.
This chapter will not provide students with much useful information regarding the principles of epidemiology or the paradigms for controlling and eradicating parasitic diseases.
Rather than eradicating the comparatively few survivors of myxomatosis, a rabbit population was allowed to reestablish itself.
This period also saw a substantial step towards eradicating the residue of the parochial poor law approach to homelessness.
Stage two aimed at eradicating tenancy, especially sharecropping.
In addition, the recent culturally enhanced mobility of peoples facilitates greater mixing of genes between populations, eradicating differences and slowing down the divergence of populations.
On the one hand, treatment could be directed toward eradicating the harmony error pattern.
Stable economic growth is, on this account, the best road for eventually eradicating poverty and improving equity (p. 16).
