verb
- Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment.
- usage: "The war uprooted many people"
- synonyms: deracinate
- Destroy completely, as if down to the roots.
- usage: "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
- Pull up by or as if by the roots.
- usage: "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
- synonyms: extirpate, deracinate, root out
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