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   e·rad·i·cate

   /əˈradəˌkāt/

   verb

   • 1. destroy completely; put an end to: "this disease has been eradicated from the world"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘pull up by the roots’): from Latin eradicat- ‘torn up by the roots’, from the verb eradicare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + radix, radic- ‘root’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. eradicable adjective
   • 2. eradicant noun
   • 3. eradicator noun

   Scrabble Points: 12

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   • D

     2

   • I

     1

   • C

     3

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • E

     1

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