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Eradication

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
  2. 2
    the complete destruction of every trace of something wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being plucked up by the roots.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ērādīcātiō, from ērādīcō + -tiō, from ē- (“out”) + rādīx (“root”) + -ō. Equivalent to eradicate + -ion or e- (“without”) + radication.

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