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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eradication, obliterationnoun

    the complete destruction of every trace of something

Wiktionary

  1. eradicationnoun

    The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

  2. eradicationnoun

    The state of being plucked up by the roots.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Eradicationnoun

    Etymology: from eradicate.

    They affirm the roots of mandrakes give a shriek upon eradication, which is false below confutation. Thomas Browne, Vulg. Err.

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  1. eradication

    Eradication refers to the act of completely eliminating or destroying something, often referring to harmful or undesirable conditions, organisms, or circumstances. It represents the highest measure of disease control, aiming at permanently reducing to zero the worldwide occurrence of an infection or disease.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Eradicationnoun

    the act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction

  2. Eradicationnoun

    the state of being plucked up by the roots

  3. Etymology: [L. eradicatio: cf. F. radication.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Eradication in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Eradication in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Eradication in a Sentence

  1. Martin Sikora:

    The last 40 to 50 years have been exceptionally quiet for us, because we've had such tremendous progress in medical research, the combination of vaccines and antibiotics, the eradication of smallpox gives us hope for the current situation.

  2. Anthony Fauci:

    When I talk about the pandemic I put it into five phases. The truly pandemic phase where the whole world is really very negatively impacted – as we are right now. Then there's the deceleration of the pandemic. Then there's control. There's elimination and eradication.

  3. Kim Woo-joo:

    The nation is reeling with false hope of a return to normal in February since the vaccination starts then, but the eradication is impossible with so many locally transmitted cases.

  4. Hamid Jafari:

    We need at least three years of no wild polio virus circulation and good surveillance for the Global Commission (for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication) to certify eradication of wild polio virus, we haven't seen type 3 wildtype in over three years. Hopefully very soon we will stop seeing wildtype type 1.

  5. Chetan Dube:

    There are schools of thought and singularity that say, ‘This is going too far. Super-intelligence will start to dominate human intelligence in the next decade.’ I do not subscribe to that, there are also digital optimists who argue [AI] could cure poverty, hunger and everything else. There is one thing both of these two antipodal groups agree on: This is going to be the biggest tectonic transformation that the planet has ever seen. Whether it’s going to lead to the ultimate destruction of mankind or complete eradication of all diseases and poverty is up for debate. But the fact is this is going to have an impact bigger than any other impact that man has seen before. That’s not up for question.

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