v. t. | 1. | To pluck up by the roots; to root up; |
2. | To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; |
Verb | 1. | eradicate - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" |
2. | eradicate - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" |