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eradicate
/ɪˈɹæd.ɪ.keɪt/
verb
To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
"Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980."
Antonymsradicate
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