(n.) The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
(n.) The state of being plucked up by the roots.
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.
Extermination
Definition:
(n.) The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
(n.) Elimination.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
(2) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(3) Almost 300 survivors of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz gather on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of their liberation, in what for many will be the last such commemoration.
(4) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
(5) "We have no reason to hope now that the Serbs will go through catharsis and acknowledge that the non-Serbs in Prijedor had been killed, tortured, exterminated, raped."
(6) Reinfestation from within or outside the project area must also be taken into account.These and other aspects are discussed in relation to experience gained from a successful extermination project carried out in the Sudan vegetation zone and from present control activities in the Northern Guinea vegetation zone.
(7) Ingestion of an improperly stored liquid pesticide was the most common route of intoxication (76% of patients); five (14%) children became intoxicated after playing on carpets and floors of homes that had been sprayed or fogged by unlicensed exterminators.
(8) Prosecutors have concentrated the charge on the period between May and July 1944, the time of the mass deportation of Hungary’s Jewish community to Auschwitz when 137 trains brought 425,000 people to Auschwitz, of whom at least 300,000 were exterminated.
(9) (When a nest was discovered in Gloucestershire last year, the government quickly moved to exterminate it.
(10) Trapper moving 30,000 bees from South Austin oak tree What happened: When bees become disruptive in cities, local governments are favoring the relocation of bees over extermination.
(11) As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
(12) Their imaginations are populated with superheroes, evil geniuses, mutant animals and androids that exterminate anyone who mentions homework.
(13) The consequences of continued increase of greenhouse gases extend far beyond extermination of species and future sea level rise.
(14) There are reasonable grounds to believe that the conduct described amounts to extermination as a crime against humanity.” Tens of thousands of detainees are held by President Bashar al-Assad’s government at any one time, and thousands more have “disappeared” after being arrested by state forces or gone missing after abduction by armed groups, the report said.
(15) The 56-page indictment said he prepared lists of Tutsis to be "exterminated", referring to them as "cockroaches" – a term notoriously used by those behind the genocide.
(16) Grossman was a Soviet Jewish journalist who covered the battle of Stalingrad and the liberation of the Treblinka extermination camp.
(17) Mechanisms prohibiting such hybridization in the natural habitat may have broken down under heavy predation pressure which finally resulted in the local extermination of M. nemestrinia.
(18) Like Gröning, neither of them are known to have directly killed, but they were in the camp when at least 1.1 million Jewish people, as well as tens of thousands of non-Jewish Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Sinti and Roma, were exterminated.
(19) Cane toads and cats, for example, have simply exterminated small marsupials.
(20) Indeterminacy takes the form of alternative competitive outcomes: in some replicate cultures one species exterminates the other with a probability, say p, whereas in others, the opposing species wins with a complementary probability, 1-p.