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uproot

Verbs

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

Synonyms

deracinate extirpate eradicate exterminate root out

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