eradicate

Other forms of eradicate

past tense

eradicated·

present participle

eradicating·

third person

eradicates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eradicate

What does eradicate mean?

eradicate means "kill in large numbers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eradicate?

eradicate has 4 syllables: e-rad-i-cate. The stress falls on "rad". In IPA it is /ɪˈɹædəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for eradicate?

Close synonyms include eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, wipe out, decimate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eradicate a common word?

eradicate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with eradicate?

34 words rhyme with eradicate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.