Uproot

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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