Eradicate

(v. t.) To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.

(v. t.) To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.

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• In brief, the commission failed to see that the working conscience of America is to-day bound up with the very evil it is supposed to eradicate by a relentless warfare. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It is their business to eradicate an impulse which is constantly changing form by being suppressed. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I find that the image which I did suppose had been eradicated from my 'eart is NOT eradicated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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