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eradicate

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To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.

To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.

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the plague wiped out an entire population Source: Internet

the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted Source: Internet

root out corruption Source: Internet

According to this view, it has also become evident that the inner meaning of the Quran does not eradicate or invalidate its outward meaning. Source: Internet

Albaugh thanked CDFW for coming to speak with the board, but shared his opinion on the amount of resources used to investigate wolf deaths and noted they’d be better to allocate resources to help eradicate illegal marijuana grows. Source: Internet

Although the government previously eradicated only coca seed beds, in 1998 and 1999 it began to eradicate mature coca being grown in national parks and elsewhere in the main coca growing valleys. Source: Internet

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