Definition of Uproot

Verb: uproot  ,úp'root

1. Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
   "The war uprooted many people";
   - deracinate
    
2. Destroy completely, as if down to the roots
   "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted";
   - 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";
   - extirpate, deracinate, root out

See also:
uproars
uprootal

Anagrams containing the word uproot

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