eradication

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: e=rad=i=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

eradication, n. [L. eradicatio: cf. F. éradication.].

•  The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being plucked up by the roots.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

eradication

Fewness

N fewness, paucity, small number, small quantity, rarity, infrequency, handful, maniple, minority, exiguity, reduction, weeding, elimination, sarculation, decimation, eradication, few, scant, scanty, thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous, infrequent, rari nantes, hardly any, scarcely any, to be counted on one's fingers, reduced, unrepeated, rarely, here and there.

Extraction

N extraction, extracting, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers, extracted.