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roots," it's not surprising that the root of eradicate means, in fact, "root." eradicate, which first turned up in english in the th century, comes from eradicatus, the past participle of the latin verb eradicare. eradicare, in turn, can be traced back to the latin word radix, meaning "root" or "radish
." although eradicate began life as a word for literal uprooting, by the mid- th century it had developed a metaphorical application to removing things the way one might yank an undesirable weed up by the roots. other descendants of radix in english include radical and radish . even the word root itself...
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