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uproot
verb
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What it means

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