Dictionary definition · uproot
verb
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment"The war uprooted many people"
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
- pull up by or as if by the roots"uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).