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Eradication [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of plucking up by the roots; extirpation; excision; total destruction.

2. The state of being plucked up by the roots.

Eradication [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

2. The state of being plucked up by the roots.

Fewness Roget’s Thesaurus §103

N. fewness, paucity, small number, small quantity, rarity, infrequency, handful, maniple, minority, exiguity, reduction, weeding, elimination, sarculation|, decimation, eradication

V. be few, render few, reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate, cull, thin, decimate

Adj. few, scant, scanty, thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous, infrequent, rari nantes, hardly any, scarcely any, to be counted on one's fingers, reduced, unrepeated

Adv. rarely, here and there

Extraction Roget’s Thesaurus §301

N. extraction, extracting &c. # v, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers

V. extract, draw, take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out, wring from, wrench, extort, root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out, eradicate, pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots, averruncate|, unroot, uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge, remove, educe, elicit, evolve, extricate, eliminate, eviscerate, express, squeeze out, press out

Adj. extracted