Eradication synonyms

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elimination
(Biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
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extermination
The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
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annihilation
(Physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
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destruction (related)
Destruction is defined as the tearing down or dismantling or killing of something.
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clearance
The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared
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liquidation
The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
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purge
Purge means the act of cleansing or clearing.
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removal
A petition made by a defendant to have a case moved from one court to another, usually as in the second definition.
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riddance
The act of ridding:
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extinction
The fact of being extinct or the process of becoming extinct:
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extinguishment
The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
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extirpation
The act of extirpating or uprooting.
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obliteration
The total destruction of something
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keep (related)
(Historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to keep, the word comes "from the Middle English term kype, meaning basket or cask, and was a term applied to the shell keep at Guînes, said to resemble a barrel".)
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crimes (related)
Plural form of crime
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help (related)
Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
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make (related)
The way in which something is made; style; build
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eradicate (related)
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rinderpest (related)
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trachoma (related)
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alleviation (related)
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Find another word for eradication. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for eradication, like: elimination, extermination, annihilation, destruction, clearance, liquidation, purge, removal, riddance, extinction and extinguishment.
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Eradication Sentence Examples

  • In the eradication of smallpox, as in the near-elimination of polio, I find both fascinating lessons of history and enormous reason for hope.

  • Thus, in the third, fourth and fifth general sessions it was enacted, with characteristic precipitation, that an ecumenical council could not be dissolved or set aside by the pope, without its consent: the corollary to which was, that the present council, notwithstanding the flight of John XXIII., continued to exist in the full possession of its powers, and that, in matters pertaining to belief and the eradication of schism, all men - even the pope - were bound to obey the general council, whose authority extended over all Christians, including the pope himself.

  • Augustine's (erroneous) interpretation of the Millennium (Rev. xx.), as a parable of the Church's historic triumph, stands for the final eradication of primitive " enthusiasm " in the great Church, though of course millenarianism has had many revivals in special circles.

  • The over-stocking of the ranges has caused much loss in the past, and the almost total eradication of fine native grasses over extended areas.

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