Usually means: Eliminate something completely and permanently.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word eradicate:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. eradicate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. eradicate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eradicate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eradicate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eradicate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eradicate, eradicate: Wordnik
  7. eradicate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eradicate: Wiktionary
  9. eradicate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eradicate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eradicate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Eradicate, eradicate: Dictionary.com
  13. eradicate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Eradicate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. eradicate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. eradicate: Rhymezone
  17. eradicate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. eradicate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. eradicate: Free Dictionary
  20. eradicate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. eradicate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eradicate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eradicate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Eradicate: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eradicate: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See eradicable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To pull up by the roots.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.

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