Eradication - English meaning

noun

The action of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

Usage examples:

The abolition of the death penalty

noun

The official ending of an activity or custom

noun

The complete ending of an activity or custom by law or official action

Usage examples:

The party supports the abolition of tax relief on pension funds.

noun

Complete destruction or obliteration.

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The threat of global annihilation

noun

Complete destruction, so that nothing or no one is left

Usage examples:

During the cold war the threat of nuclear annihilation was always on people's minds., the candidate…

noun

The killing or destruction of a large proportion of a group or species.

Usage examples:

Our growing hunger for fish has resulted in the decimation of fish stocks

noun

The act of killing a something in large numbers, or reducing something severely

Usage examples:

The virtual decimation of the population through influenza

noun

The action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired.

Usage examples:

The destruction of the rainforest

noun

The action of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed

Usage examples:

Unusually high winds left widespread destruction over the area., the child needs help to control hi…

prefix

Variant spelling of ex-1 (as in elect, emit ).

prefix

Denoting something in electronic form, especially the use of electronic data transfer for information exchange and financial transactions via the internet.

Usage examples:

E-cash

noun

The fifth letter of the alphabet.

Usage examples:

In o level about half of those entered obtained d or e grades

noun

The complete removal or destruction of something.

Usage examples:

The elimination of extreme poverty is a key objective

noun

The process of removing something

Usage examples:

The elimination of disease/pain, their elimination from the competition, we eventually found the an…

noun

The removal of writing, recorded material, or data.

Usage examples:

The judges recorded their diving scores on cardboard "with a lot of erasure," she said.

noun

Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.

Usage examples:

The near extermination of the buffalo herds

noun

The act of killing all the animals or people in a particular place or of a particular type

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International measures have been taken to prevent the extermination of the whale., prairie dogs hav…

noun

The fact or process of a species, family, or other group of animals or plants becoming extinct.

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Preventing the extinction of this unique frog will require the restoration of ponds and surrounding…

noun

A situation in which something no longer exists

Usage examples:

Extinction of the extinction of the dinosaurs occurred millions of years ago., in danger of extinct…

verb

Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.

Usage examples:

Firemen were soaking everything to extinguish the blaze

verb

Present participle of extinguish

Usage examples:

It took the firefighters several hours to extinguish the flames., to extinguish a cigarette, nothin…

noun

The act of removing or destroying something completely

Usage examples:

Even bobcats have suffered local declines and extirpations in some areas., two patients also had la…

noun

An act of causing death, especially deliberately.

Usage examples:

The community was shocked by the brutal killings

adjective

Causing death.

Usage examples:

A killing disease

verb

Cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing).

Usage examples:

Her father was killed in a car crash

noun

The process of liquidating a business.

Usage examples:

The company went into liquidation

noun

A situation in which a company stops operating and sells all its assets in order to pay its debts

Usage examples:

Go into liquidation after three years of heavy losses the company went into liquidation with debts …

noun

The action or fact of obliterating or being obliterated; total destruction.

Usage examples:

Headlines about the obliteration of the green belt

noun

The action of removing all signs of something, either by destroying it or by covering it so that it cannot be seen

Usage examples:

The war resulted in the obliteration of hundreds of villages., the reef faces obliteration in the n…

verb

Reject as invalid, especially by legal procedure.

Usage examples:

His conviction was quashed on appeal

verb

Present participle of quash

Usage examples:

His conviction was quashed in march 1986 after his counsel argued that the police evidence was all …

noun

The action of taking away or abolishing something unwanted.

Usage examples:

The removal of the brain tumour

noun

The process of removing or getting rid of something, often something that is considered to be harmful

Usage examples:

The removal of sth the removal of duties and taxes on trade within the eu has created an environmen…

noun

The action of suppressing something such as an activity or publication.

Usage examples:

The heavy-handed suppression of political dissent

noun

The act of preventing something from being expressed or known

Usage examples:

The suppression of emotions, the suppression of human rights