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verbdestroy completely, as if down to the roots
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verbpull up by or as if by the roots
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verbmove (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
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Examples of uproot
- "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
- "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
- "The war uprooted many people"