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eradicable en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin ērādīcābilis, from ērādīcō (“uproot”), equivalent to eradicate + -able.

Meanings

  1. Capable of being eradicated.
    • Queensland's Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the disease was hard to detect, not eradicable but very easy to spread. 2021 February 14, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 22, column 2:
    • Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.
    • A small but increasingly powerful group of medical doctors and educators […] argued that poor white trash suffered not from hereditary impurities, but from a recently discovered and eradicable parasite, the American hookworm. 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 138:

Forms

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more eradicable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most eradicable Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

ineradicable

Deriveds

uneradicable

Relateds

eradicate · eradicative · eradication

Synonyms

annihilable

Translations (6)

el εκριζώσιμος (capable of being eradicated) · ja 無くせる (capable of being eradicated) · ja 根絶できる (capable of being eradicated) · el εξαλείψιμος (capable of being eradicated) · pl możliwy do wykorzenienia (capable of being eradicated) · ja 根刮ぎにできる (capable of being eradicated)