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eradicating

eradicating is the present participle and gerund of eradicate.

Meaning of eradicate

Verb (1)

eradicate (third-person singular simple present eradicates, present participle eradicating, simple past and past participle eradicated)

(archaic, transitive) To pull up by the roots.

Synonyms:

root out, root up, uproot

Antonyms:

radicate
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
- Near-synonyms: delete, erase
Synonyms:

annihilate, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, destroy, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out

Antonyms:

encourage, foster, introduce, protect, radicate

Verb (2)

eradicate

(obsolete, participle) eradicated

Questions about eradicating

What is eradicating the present participle and gerund of?: Eradicating is the present participle and gerund of eradicate.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eradicating (page history and authors); eradicate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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