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uproot

DEFINITIONS OF: uproot

1

v move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment

“The war uprooted many people”
Synonyms:
deracinate
Type of:
displace
cause to move, usually with force or pressure

v pull up by or as if by the roots

“uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden”
Synonyms:
deracinate, extirpate, root out
Types:
stub
pull up (weeds) by their roots
Type of:
displace, move
cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense

v destroy completely, as if down to the roots

Synonyms:
eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out
Type of:
destroy, destruct
do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
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