eradicate: [16] Semantically, eradicate is an analogous formation to uproot. It comes from the past participle of Latin ērādicāre ‘pull out by the roots’, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and rādix ‘root’ (source of English radical and radish and related to English root). In the 16th and 17th centuries it was often used literally (‘oaks eradicated by a prodigious whirlwind’, Thomas Nabbes, Hannibal and Scipio 1637), but since then the metaphorical ‘remove totally’ has taken over. => radish, root
eradicate (v.)
early 15c., "destroy utterly," literally "pull up by the roots," from Latin eradicatus, past participle of eradicare "to root out, annihilate" (see eradication). Related: Eradicated; eradicating; eradicable.
双语例句
1. They are already battling to eradicate illnesses such as malaria and tetanus.
他们已经在努力消灭疟疾、破伤风等疾病。
来自柯林斯例句
2. These insects are very difficult to eradicate.
这些昆虫很难根除.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. It'set out to eradicate heresy, and ended by perpetuating it.
它的目的只是要根除异端邪说, 结果却巩固了异端邪说.
来自英汉文学
4. The government is making efforts to eradicate racial discriminating.
政府正在努力消除种族歧视.
来自辞典例句
5. A younger counter staff helps to eradicate the formidable image.