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Past tense of eradicate

regular verb

The past tense of eradicate is eradicated. The past participle is also eradicated.

Forms of eradicate

Base form (V1)eradicate /ɪˈɹæd.ɪ.keɪt/
Past tense (V2)eradicated
Past participle (V3)eradicated
Present participleeradicating
Third person singulareradicates

Eradicated in a sentence

  • Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.
  • The germinal matrix in this area is then eradicated either by surgical or chemical matrixectomy using phenol or NaOH.2016, Roba Khundkar, Silva Samantha De, Rajat Chowdury, Consent in Surgery: A Practical Guide, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 89
  • "Commodityism" was not eradicated by any single measure of the Farm Bureau in the thirties.1959, Roland Eugene Richter, The American Farm Bureau and the New Deal, page 35. From the entry commodityism
  • The flies may be eradicated then.1999 June 6, James Lee, “Aircon foodcourts at North-South highway stops.”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet), archived from the original on…. From the entry aircon
  • When Aboriginal people showed up which they inevitably did they had to be subjected, incarcerated or eradicated: to keep the myth of terra nullius alive.1993, Patrick Dodson, ‘Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of Indigenous People in National Constitutions’, in Heiss & Minter…. From the entry terra nullius

Meaning of eradicate

  1. verb To pull up by the roots.
  2. verb To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
  3. verb Eradicated.

Full definition of eradicate

Questions about the past tense of eradicate

What is the past tense of eradicate?
The past tense of eradicate is eradicated.
What is the past participle of eradicate?
The past participle of eradicate is eradicated.
Is eradicate a regular or irregular verb?
Eradicate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eradicate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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