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