Build
Build verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.
Eradicate
Eradicate verb - To destroy all traces of.
Usage example: the successful effort to eradicate smallpox around the globe
Nearby Words: eradication, eradicating
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- However, not only does the Doctor directly kill several Daleks over the course of the story, he's actually been planning to eradicate them all for centuries in advance — with a weapon he helped build.
Source: Protagonist-Centered Morality - As it turns out, the Ark contains a foundry at its core that can build Halo rings, with it having already almost finished building a replacement for Installation 04; John-117 activates it to eradicate the galaxy-threatening Flood as well as their Gravemind.
Source: Unspoken Plan Guarantee - Subverted by Eridan in Homestuck; he hates the terrestrial portion of the Alternian troll population, and claims that he would happily eradicate the lot of them, even commissioning a (land-dwelling) friend of his to build doomsday devices (that unaccountably fail to work).
Source: Genocide Dilemma
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Eradicate and Build. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/eradicate
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Eradicate or Build. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/eradicate.
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