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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