eradicate
verb[T]
formaluk/ɪˈræd.ɪ.keɪt/us/ɪˈræd.ɪ.keɪt/C2
to getridof somethingcompletelyordestroysomethingbad:
根除;消灭;杜绝Thegovernmentclaimsto be doing all it can to eradicatecorruption.政府声称正尽其所能根治腐败。
Thediseasethatonceclaimedmillions ofliveshas now been eradicated.这种曾夺去数百万人生命的疾病现在已被根除了。
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandonment
- banish
- be scattered to the four windsidiom
- bin
- castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
- dumping
- erase
- erasure
- evacuate
- evacuation
- exorcism
- expunge
- fling
- scrape
- shoo
- shrug
- shrugsomethingoff
- shuck
- shucksomethingoff
- sling