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annihilation
The act or process of annihilating.
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  1. The act or process of annihilating.
  2. The condition of having been annihilated; utter destruction.
  3. (Physics) The phenomenon in which a particle and an antiparticle, such as an electron and a positron, meet and are converted to a combination of energy or energetic particles approximately equivalent to the sum of their masses.
elimination
(Accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
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  1. (Accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
  2. The process of expelling or removing, especially of waste products from the body.
  3. (Logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
clearance
Official, esp. governmental, authorization allowing a person to examine classified documents, participate in confidential projects, etc.
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  1. Official, esp. governmental, authorization allowing a person to examine classified documents, participate in confidential projects, etc.
  2. The act or process of meeting the requirements for getting this certificate
  3. Renal clearance.
elimination
(Logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
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  1. (Logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
  2. (Biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
  3. The process of expelling or removing, especially of waste products from the body.
liquidation
A liquidating or being liquidated
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  1. A liquidating or being liquidated
  2. The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
  3. The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
purge
Something that purges, especially a medicinal purgative.
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  1. Something that purges, especially a medicinal purgative.
  2. The process of ridding a nation, political party, etc. of individuals held to be disloyal or undesirable
  3. The act or process of purging:
removal
The fact of being removed.
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  1. The fact of being removed.
  2. A petition made by a defendant to have a case moved from one court to another, usually as in the second definition.
  3. A removing or being removed
riddance
A ridding or being rid; clearance or removal, as of something undesirable, or deliverance, as from something oppressive
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  1. A ridding or being rid; clearance or removal, as of something undesirable, or deliverance, as from something oppressive
  2. The act of ridding:
annihilation
The act or process of annihilating.
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  1. The act or process of annihilating.
  2. (Physics) The phenomenon in which a particle and an antiparticle, such as an electron and a positron, meet and are converted to a combination of energy or energetic particles approximately equivalent to the sum of their masses.
  3. The condition of having been annihilated; utter destruction.
extinction
The fact or state of being or becoming extinct
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  1. The fact or state of being or becoming extinct
  2. The condition of being extinguished:
  3. The fact of being extinct or the process of becoming extinct:
extinguishment
The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
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  1. The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
  2. (Law) The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
extirpation
The act of extirpating or uprooting.
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  1. The act of extirpating or uprooting.
  2. The surgical removal of an organ, a part of an organ, or a diseased tissue.
liquidation
A liquidating or being liquidated
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  1. A liquidating or being liquidated
  2. The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
  3. The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
Find another word for eradication. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for eradication, like: extermination, annihilation, elimination, destruction, clearance, elimination, liquidation, purge, removal, riddance and annihilation.

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  • it would appear that there is little prospect of the eradication of this bacterial disorder.

  • 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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