eradicate

Verbs

(v) kill in large numbers
- the plague wiped out an entire population
annihilate, decimate, wipe out, carry off, eliminate, extinguish,
(v) destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted
- root out corruption
extirpate, exterminate, root out, uproot,

Synonyms

annihilate decimate wipe out carry off eliminate extinguish extirpate exterminate root out uproot

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