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uproot

English

  1. 🔊 pull up by or as if by the roots
    “uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden”
  2. 🔊 destroy completely, as if down to the roots
    “the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted”
  3. 🔊 move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
    “The war uprooted many people”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 descuajar to uproot
  2. 🔊 extirpar to uproot
  3. 🔊 desarraigar to uproot, root out, eradicate

Similar words

extirpate deracinate root out eradicate extirpate root out exterminate deracinate abate abolish annihilate avulse banish blot out buck off cut out demolish depose deracinate destroy devastate dig out dig up disentangle