ERAD'ICATE, verb transitive [Latin eradico, from radix, root.] 1. To pull up the roots, or by the roots. Hence, to destroy anything that grows; to extirpate; to destroy the roots, so that the plant will not be reproduced; as, to eradicate weeds. 2. To destroy thoroughly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate errors, or false principles, or vice or disease.
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