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.
雙語例句
1. They are already battling to eradicate illnesses such as malaria and tetanus.
他們已經在努力消滅瘧疾、破傷風等疾病。
來自柯林斯例句
2. These insects are very difficult to eradicate.
這些昆蟲很難根除.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. It'set out to eradicate heresy, and ended by perpetuating it.
它的目的只是要根除異端邪說, 結果卻鞏固了異端邪說.
來自英漢文學
4. The government is making efforts to eradicate racial discriminating.
政府正在努力消除種族歧視.
來自辭典例句
5. A younger counter staff helps to eradicate the formidable image.