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eradication [ih-rad-i-keyt] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
eradication [ih-rad-i-keyt]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extermination
Synonyms: annihilation, destruction, elimination
Main Entry: death
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: end of life
Synonyms: afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb
Antonyms: being, birth, entity, existence, life, living
Main Entry: destruction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: demolition, devastation
Synonyms: abolishing, abolition, annihilation, assassinating, bane, carnage, crashing, crushing, disintegrating, disrupting, dissolving, downfall, elimination, end, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishing, extirpation, havoc, invalidating, invalidation, liquidation, loss, massacre, murder, overthrow, ravaging, ruin, ruination, sacking, shattering, slaughter, slaying, subjugation, subversion, subverting, undoing, wreckage, wrecking
Antonyms: building, construction, creation, improvement, reparation, restoration
Example Sentences
  • The eradication of an evil lies not so much in law as in the society itself.
  • But the eradication effort has already taken a decade longer than expected.
  • His work leads to the control of yellow fever by mosquito eradication projects.
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Main Entry: elimination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: removal
Synonyms: cut, destruction, discard, displacement, dropping, ejection, eradication, exclusion, expulsion, extermination, omission, rejection, riddance, taking away, weeding out, withdrawal
Main Entry: extraction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: removal from whole; distillation
Synonyms: abstraction, derivation, drawing, elicitation, eradication, evocation, evulsion, expression, extirpation, extrication, pulling, separation, taking out, uprooting, withdrawal, wrenching, wresting
Antonyms: addition, insertion, introduction
Main Entry: purge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: elimination, removal
Synonyms: abolition, abstersion, catharsis, clarification, cleaning, cleanup, coup, crushing, disposal, disposition, ejection, eradication, evacuation, excretion, expulsion, expurgation, extermination, extirpation, liquidation, murder, purification, reign of terror, suppression, witch hunt
Antonyms: holding, keeping, maintenance
Main Entry: erasure
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cancellation
Synonyms: blotting out, canceling, crossing out, deleting, deletion, effacing, eradication, expunction, expunging, obliteration, rubbing out, scratching out, wiping out
Main Entry: removal
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: the state of being removed
Synonyms: banishment, deportation, discharge, dismissal, ejection, elimination, eradication, evacuation, eviction, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extermination, extirpation, extraction, replacement, transference
Antonyms: entrance, induction, introduction
Main Entry: annihilation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Utter destruction.
Synonyms: decimation, demolishment, demolition, destruction, elimination, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, liquidation, massacre, obliteration, ruin, slaughter
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