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"Wipe out"2 answers
eradicate9 lettersobliterate10 letters
Filled answer is this word (ERADICATE).
Definitions
kill in large numbers
Word origin
From Middle English eradicaten (“to eradicate”), from eradicat(e) (“eradicated”, past participle of eradicaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin ērādīcātus, the perfect passive participle of ērādīcō (“to uproot, root out; to anihilate, eradicate”), from ē- (“out”) + rādīx (“root”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also radish.
Used in a sentence
“Near-synonyms: delete, erase”
“Smallpox was globally eradicated in 1980.”
“Thus far, virtually every cinematic attempt to convey the outrages of South African life under apartheid has been diminished by its own good intentions and by a grim sameness that eradicates any element of surprise.”
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