eradicate

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verb

1. kill in large numbers (Freq. 2)
- the plague wiped out an entire population
• Syn:
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, wipe out, decimate, carry off
• Derivationally related forms:
decimation (for: decimate), wipeout (for: wipe out), extinction (for: extinguish), annihilative (for: annihilate), annihilation (for: annihilate), annihilator (for: annihilate)
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Group:
decimate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption
• Syn:
uproot, extirpate, root out, exterminate
• Derivationally related forms:
extirpation (for: extirpate), eradication, eradicator, uprooter (for: uproot)
• Hypernyms:
destroy, destruct
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  uproot, extirpate, root out, exterminate, eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, wipe out, decimate, carry off