eradicable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- eradicably adverb
- noneradicable adjective
- uneradicable adjective
Etymology
Origin of eradicable
1840–50; < Late Latin ērādīcābilis, equivalent to Latin ērādīc ( āre ) to eradicate + -ābilis -able
Example Sentences
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The International Task Force for Disease Eradication currently has eight diseases identified as potentially eradicable.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2022
But he still believes the absurdity is eradicable.
From Time Magazine Archive
He still has an in eradicable touch of Texas backlands about him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Disease had been communicated several years before, of a kind which was much more communicable then, than it was eradicable now.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
One wonders how far this is merely due to defective education and therefore modifiable, and how far it is based on an eradicable tendency of the human mind.
From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock
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