(v. t.) To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.
(v. t.) To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.
Example Sentences:
(1) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(2) Mastitis in its complexity has managed to forestall all efforts of eradication in spite of years of research, antibiotics and practical control measures.
(3) Treatment failed to eradicate S. aureus in 1 patient from each group.
(4) Clinical response was associated with eradication of the abnormal anaerobic flora, despite persistence of G vaginalis in nine (26%).
(5) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(6) Nontumorigenic and nonpromotable cells were moderately affected; the tumorigenic and the promotable cells, however, were markedly affected, resulting in their complete (or nearly complete) eradication.
(7) The acquisition of dryness is accelerated by eradication of bacteriuria and a sympathetic and energetic management regime, which should place responsibility on the child and result in the child voiding more frequently and completely.
(8) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
(9) 85% of the patients recovered or improved within a few days of therapy, with no clinical relapses, and in 81% of the infections the responsible bacteria were completely eradicated.
(10) Bacteriologically, successful eradication of causative organisms was confirmed in all the 4 children who underwent the test.
(11) Cryptosporidium was eradicated from the stools of four patients but two of these patients subsequently relapsed and one patient continued to have diarrhea despite the absence of Cryptosporidium in the stool.
(12) Eradication of poliomyelitis most likely will occur.
(13) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
(14) This low complication rate makes surgical correction advisable if urinary tract infection and primary reflux cannot be eradicated by continuous antimicrobial therapy.
(15) In order to achieve guineaworm eradication in 1990s, the Guineaworm Eradication Programme (GWEP) should operate with utmost efficiency; and needs to be concurrently evaluated for timely corrective measures.
(16) Eradication of the pedunculated and narrow-based polyps in stomach was almost totally successful by injection into the base.
(17) Ninety five (97.9%) of 97 strains which were isolated from the patients were eradicated in the urinary specimens by the treatment.
(18) A total of 36 foci of the disease were examined and eradicated.
(19) In conclusion, management of unexpected SDT during OPU include the following therapeutic goals: (1) complete eradication of the tumor to eliminate the remote possibility of malignancy and recurrence; (2) performance of adequate peritoneal lavage to prevent chemical peritonitis; (3) conservation of the maximum amount of functional ovarian tissue; and (4) exclusion of the possibility of dermoid cyst in the contralateral ovary.
(20) Repair of the floppy mitral valve did not eradicate all abnormalities; however, it did significantly improve the chest pain, weakness, dyspnea, and arrhythmias in all six patients.
Pull
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
(v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
(v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
(v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
(v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
(v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
(v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
(v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
(n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
(n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
(n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
(n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
(n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
(n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
(n.) Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
(n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
(2) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(3) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
(4) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(5) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
(6) The effect of 5 beta- and 5 alpha-reduced progestins on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) release was examined using either an in vitro superfusion or an in vivo push-pull perfusion (PPP) technique.
(7) The person responsible for pulling the trigger was equally likely to be a friend, a family member, or the victim.
(8) The cull in 2013 required a policing effort costing millions of pounds and pulling in officers from many different forces.
(9) Asymmetries occur less often whilst using the low-cervical-pull according to Sander, due to the reduced friction between the two plastic parts of this headgear system.
(10) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
(11) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(12) All the others, all that bullshit, they just want to pull me down from the top but I will not go.
(13) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(14) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
(15) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
(16) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
(17) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
(18) The second national multiplex was handed to 4 Digital, but was handed back after Channel 4 pulled out.
(19) AJ Green was waiting just behind him, and the receiver gratefully pulled in the softly fluttering ball.
(20) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.