Sample Sentences for
eradicate
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    But Thomas rolled over and refused to say another word, worried he'd mess up this new sense of being encouraged, eradicate the reassuring calm that filled his heart.  (source)
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    It set out to eradicate heresy, and ended by perpetuating it.  (source)
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    Her features eradicated, her limbs three times their normal size.  (source)
    eradicated = eliminated
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    There was a murder to stop, a superhero to mentor, villains to vanquish, darkness to eradicate.†  (source)
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    The Ousters would be eradicated as a potential menace once and for all.†  (source)
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    Yet even in death my dad was ineradicable, no matter how hard I tried to wish him out of the picture—for there he always was, in my hands and my voice and my walk, in my darting sideways glance as I left the restaurant with Hobie, the very set of my head recalling his old, preening habit of checking himself out in any mirror-like surface.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in ineradicable means not and reverses the meaning of eradicable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    I was asked to try for the National Squad, but preferred to dedicate my life to the eradication of the Dark Forces.  (source)
    eradication = complete destruction
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Most correctly named August Illea as Dad's partner in eradicating the rebel forces, and they all knew the history of the Fourth World War.  (source)
    eradicating = eliminating
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    Drawn by the fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet.  (source)
    ineradicably = in a way that cannot be eliminated
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in ineradicably means not and reverses the meaning of eradicably. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    A sound of pleasure slips out of my mouth as the stuff eradicates my itching.†  (source)
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    This at any rate was the duty with which she found herself confronted—from the moment she admitted to herself that her old friend had still an uneradicated predilection for her society.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uneradicated means not and reverses the meaning of eradicated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    For example, people have tried to eradicate pests with various pesticides.†  (source)
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    Cancer, heart disease, and most debilitating illnesses are almost entirely eradicated.†  (source)
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