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uproot
English
- 🔊 pull up by or as if by the roots“uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden”
- 🔊 destroy completely, as if down to the roots“the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted”
- 🔊 move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment“The war uprooted many people”
Spanish
- 🔊 descuajar to uproot
- 🔊 extirpar to uproot
- 🔊 desarraigar to uproot, root out, eradicate