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 Translation for 'to eradicate sth' from English to Icelandic
afmá e-ðto eradicate sth.
unverified útrýma e-uto eradicate sth.
uppræta e-ðto eradicate sth.
eyða e-u [uppræta]to eradicate sth.
Partial Matches
fergja e-ð (með e-u)to weight down sth. (with sth.) [hold it down]
hlaða e-ð með e-u to charge sth. with sth. [to load firearm, battery]
bera e-ð á/í e-ðto apply sth. to/on sth. [put on]
taka e-ð fyrir e-ðto charge sth. for sth. [set a price]
rukka e-ð fyrir e-ðto charge sth. for sth. [demand a price]
fylla e-ð með e-uto charge sth. with sth. [load to capacity]
þrífa e-ð úr e-uto snatch sth. from / out of sth.
unverified svipta e-u ofan af e-uto sweep sth. off sth. [take away]
þrykkja e-ð á e-ðto print sth. on sth. [especially graphics]
vilja e-ð frekar en e-ð annaðto prefer sth. to sth. else
verja e-ð fyrir e-uto protect sth. against / from sth.
láta e-ð ofan í e-ðto put sth. in / into sth.
taka e-ð fram yfir annaðto prefer sth. to sth. else
yfirfæra e-ðe-ð)to superimpose sth. (on / onto sth.)
eyrnamerkja e-ð e-uto earmark sth. for sth. [reserve]
aðlaga e-ð (e-u)to adjust sth. (at / to sth.)
e-ð út úr e-uto get sth. out of sth.
unverified keyra e-ð í e-ð [slá af afli]to hit sth. hard (with sth.)
pota e-u í e-ðto tuck sth. into sth. else
pota e-u í e-ðto prod sth. into sth. else
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Usage Examples English
  • A system of reservations in government services and educational institutions was created to eradicate the social inequalities and disadvantages faced by peoples of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
  • There were 26 points in the revised law that crippling the commission, and might further prevent more progressive efforts to eradicate corruption cases in Indonesia.
  • He wished to eradicate completely the doctrine of Hus, for which purpose the co-operation of King Wenceslaus had to be obtained.
  • However, they assured to "remain resolutely committed to eradicate racial prejudice".
  • Extensive ecological studies should be performed before further introduction of acacia varieties, as this fast-growing genus, once introduced, spreads quickly and is extremely difficult to eradicate.

  • The report states that "To eradicate extreme poverty, massive global investment is required in social assistance, education and pro-poorest economic growth".
  • Bohdan sought to eradicate Jews from Ukraine. Thus, according to the treaty of Zboriv all Jewish people were forbidden to live on the territory controlled by Cossack rebels.
  • This view is reiterated by David Pearce, who advocates for the use of biotechnology to eradicate suffering in all sentient beings.
  • Efforts were made to eradicate malaria, an endemic disease in the region, with the help of the World Health Organization.
  • "Heidenjachten", translated as "heathen hunt" happened throughout Holland in an attempt to eradicate them.

  • It attempts to eradicate the anxiety associated with the inability to sleep by instructing patients to do the opposite and attempt to stay awake.
  • According to Norberto Bobbio, one of the major exponents of this distinction, the left believes in attempting to eradicate social inequality—believing it to be unethical or unnatural, while the right regards most social inequality as the result of ineradicable natural inequalities, and sees attempts to enforce social equality as utopian or authoritarian.
  • In the Middle Ages, the Inquisition's main focus was to eradicate these new sects.
  • Western scholars like Michael Ryan assert that Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab's reformist teachings were a rationalist enterprise that sought to eradicate superstitions widespread in the context of tribal rivalry within the Arabian Peninsula.
  • Upon endorsing the biggest ever collaborative disease eradication program called the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases launched on 30 January 2012 in London, the organization has implemented SightFirst program by which it aims to eradicate blindness due to trachoma, one of the neglected tropical diseases.

  • By the 1980s the eastern side of the island had become overgrown by rhododendrons "(Rhododendron ponticum)" which had spread from a few specimens planted in the garden of Millcombe House in Victorian times, but in recent years significant efforts have been made to eradicate this non-native plant.
  • In some countries, koi have caused so much damage to waterways that vast amounts of money and effort have been spent trying to eradicate them, largely unsuccessfully.
  • Germanisation policies in Masuria included various strategies, first and foremost they included attempts to propagate the German language and to eradicate the Polish (Masurian) language as much as possible; German became the obligatory language in schools from 1834 on.
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