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eradicate
1. v. To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
2. v. To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.

Example Sentences

We must eradicate the drug traffic, root and branch.

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