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Eradicate vs. Irradicate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Eradicate and Irradicate

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Eradicate

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Irradicate

To root deeply

Eradicate

To tear up by the roots
"They loosened the soil and eradicated the weeds" (James Macauley).

Irradicate

To root deeply.

Eradicate

To get rid of; eliminate
Their goal was to eradicate poverty.

Eradicate

(transitive) To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
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Eradicate

(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.

Eradicate

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

Eradicate

To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.
This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment.

Eradicate

Kill in large numbers;
The plague wiped out an entire population

Eradicate

Destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
The vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted

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