See Also: eradicate(medicine)
eradicate(dictionary)
eradicate(dictionary)

ministress (iou) and eradicate (oh)


ministress (iou)



ministress noun. L15.
[from MINISTER noun + -ESS1.]
A female minister. Chiefly fig.
M. Akenside Beauty sent from heaven, The lovely ministress of truth and good.

eradicate (oh)



[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: , past participle of eradicare 'to pull out by the root', from radix 'root']
to completely get rid of something such as a disease or a social problem
eradicate sth from sth
::We can eradicate this disease from the world.
::an attempt to eradicate inflation
::This problem has now been completely eradicated.
-- eradication /I7rAdZ5keIFEn/ n [U]