verb
- Pull up by or as if by the roots.
- usage: "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
- synonyms: uproot, extirpate, deracinate
- Destroy completely, as if down to the roots.
- usage: "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- synonyms: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, exterminate
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