ERADICATE vs DECIMATE: VERB
- To completely destroy; to put an end to; to extirpate.
- Destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
- Kill in large numbers
- Kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
- Kill in large numbers
- To kill one man chosen by lot out of every ten in a legion or other military group.
- To reduce anything by one in ten, or ten percent.
- To exact a tithe, or tax of 10 percent.
- To reduce to one-tenth.
- To severely reduce; to destroy almost completely.
- To replace a high-resolution model with one of lower resolution but acceptably similar appearance.
ERADICATE vs DECIMATE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate.
- To pluck up by the roots; to root up.
- To get rid of; eliminate: : eliminate.
- To tear up by the roots.
- To destroy or kill a large part of (a group of people or organisms).
- To inflict great destruction or damage on.
- To reduce markedly in amount.
- To select by lot and kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers).
- To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of.
- To destroy a considerable part of
- To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
ERADICATE vs DECIMATE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To pull up by the roots; destroy at the roots; root out; extirpate: as, to eradicate weeds.
- Hence To destroy thoroughly; remove utterly: as, to eradicate errors or disease.
- To take the tenth part of or from; tithe.
- To select by lot and put to death every tenth man of: as, to decimate a captured army or a body of prisoners or mutineers (a barbarity occasionally practised in antiquity).
- Loosely, to destroy a great but indefinite number or proportion of: as, the inhabitants were decimated by fever; the troops were decimated by the enemy's fire.
ERADICATE vs DECIMATE: RELATED WORDS
- Curb, Destroy, Wipe, Rid, Combating, Banish, Carry off, Wipe out, Extinguish, Decimate, Annihilate, Uproot, Extirpate, Exterminate, Eliminate
- Deplete, Obliterate, Eviscerate, Ravage, Cripple, Reduce, Ruin, Destroy, Devastate, Carry off, Extinguish, Wipe out, Eliminate, Eradicate, Annihilate
ERADICATE vs DECIMATE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Curb, Destroy, Wipe, Rid, Combating, Banish, Carry off, Wipe out, Extinguish, Decimate, Annihilate, Uproot, Extirpate, Exterminate, Eliminate
- Deplete, Obliterate, Eviscerate, Ravage, Cripple, Reduce, Ruin, Destroy, Devastate, Carry off, Extinguish, Wipe out, Eliminate, Eradicate, Annihilate
ERADICATE vs DECIMATE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- I saw who did not eradicate my problem.
- Ensure effective enforcement to eradicate poor water stewardship.
- Skilled and qualified to eradicate your pest problem.
- Think Childcare Limited strengths, and eradicate its weaknesses.
- Please remember, they are very hard to eradicate.
- We will eradicate the enemy and become strong.
- See Flyover Country, How Do We Eradicate Malaria?
- Learn How to Eradicate Stress, Tension and Anxiety.
- You have a chance to eradicate racism now.
- You should eradicate the settings that are wrong.
- She can also decimate a stack with her melee attack.
- This disease can decimate your prayer plant if not controlled.
- Leyland cypresses, or the woolly adelgids that often decimate hemlocks.
- My deck will decimate towers in seconds if raged out.
- We cannot allow one virus to decimate this industry overnight.
- As if I needed another reason to decimate Brude.
- Sending icicles everywhere, mages decimate entire dungeons with ease.
- They are trained to kill, decimate and destroy.
- Yet, fossil fuels continue to decimate our ecosystem.
- This spell alone will decimate heavily armored units.
ERADICATE vs DECIMATE: QUESTIONS
- Can We eradicate Bancroftian filariasis by mass treatment?
- How can an Islamic economic system eradicate poverty?
- Can We finally eradicate tuberculosis from the world?
- Why are negative stereotypes so difficult to eradicate?
- How can education help eradicate poverty in Pakistan?
- Could $20 product eradicate mosquitoes for 90 days?
- What is the government doing to eradicate untouchability?
- Could the polypill eradicate heart attacks and stroke?
- Did Junipero Serra eradicate Native American culture?
- Will Romania's parliamentary election eradicate poverty?
- Is decimate the only word in English with a single meaning?
- What factors should be considered when using decimate?