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eradicated

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verb

  1. To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
  2. To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.“Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.”

adjective

  1. Eliminated, utterly destroyed
  2. Having the roots of a tree visible in the emblazon.

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