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erradicación

eradication

noun eh-rrah-dee-kah-SYOHN Rare

Origin: Latin eradicatio, from eradicare (to uproot)

Usage Note

Erradicación denotes the complete elimination of something — la erradicación de la polio. It is a formal noun and collocates with de (of). The verb is erradicar. Note the double r at the start, which marks the trill even though it follows a vowel in compounds.

Examples

"La erradicación del virus llevó décadas."

Natural Translation

The eradication of the virus took decades.

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