eradication
/ɪˌradɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
The complete destruction of something: the eradication of poverty...
- The aim of the research has been to optimise vaccine schedules for control, elimination, or eradication of disease.
- Spreading pecans encircled the house back in the Little Town, trees which received yearly pruning, faithful webworm eradications, and regular fertilizing.
- The eradication of poverty is indeed today a vital condition for global stability, democracy and peace.
Synonyms
elimination, removal, suppression;
extermination, destruction, annihilation, extirpation, obliteration, killing, liquidation, decimation, wiping out, extinction;
abolition, extinguishing, quashing;
erasure, effacement, excision, expunction, expunging, blotting out, rubbing out
rare deracination