uproot

uproot
    v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and
         foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn:
         {uproot}, {deracinate}]
    2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of
       political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
       [syn: {uproot}, {eradicate}, {extirpate}, {root out},
       {exterminate}]
    3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has
       spread all over the garden" [syn: {uproot}, {extirpate},
       {deracinate}, {root out}]
    

Uproot \Up*root"\, v. t.
   To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots;
   to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
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         Trees uprooted left their place.         --Dryden.
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         At his command the uprooted hills retired. --Milton.
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80 Moby Thesaurus words for "uproot":
      abate, abolish, annihilate, avulse, banish, blot out, buck off,
      cut out, demolish, depose, deracinate, destroy, devastate, dig out,
      dig up, disentangle, dislodge, dismount, displace, draw, draw out,
      dredge, dredge up, eliminate, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate,
      excise, exile, exsect, exterminate, extirpate, extract, extricate,
      get out, gouge out, grub up, kill, liquidate, mine, move,
      overthrow, overturn, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, pull, pull out,
      pull up, purge, quarry, rake out, ravage, remove, replace, rip out,
      root out, root up, ruin, shift, subvert, supersede, supplant,
      sweep away, take out, tear out, throw off, transfer, transplant,
      unearth, unhorse, unplace, unravel, unsaddle, unseat, weed out,
      wipe out, withdraw, wrest out