eradicates

present tense third-person singular of eradicate

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Recent Examples of eradicates Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return. Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eradicates
Verb
  • The Amazon Basin builds and erases its own geography through its rivers.
    Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This turnover erases institutional knowledge, disrupts relationships, and leads to inconsistent policy enforcement.
    Peter White, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, this measure abolishes them.
    Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Each participant had lost central vision in one eye due to dry AMD, which destroys light-sensitive macular cells over time.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • An arson fire destroys the 43-year-old Globe Theatre on March 8 (the arsonist was never caught, but a firebug had set several blazes in the park that winter).
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Eradicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eradicates. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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