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eradication
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]
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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.For further exploring for "eradication" in Webster Dictionary Online