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Uproot   /əprˈut/   Listen
Uproot

verb
1.
Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment.  Synonym: deracinate.
2.
Destroy completely, as if down to the roots.  Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out.  "Root out corruption"
3.
Pull up by or as if by the roots.  Synonyms: deracinate, extirpate, root out.



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"Uproot" Quotes from Famous Books



... came to a stretch of perfect virgin forest. No ax, no saw, no log chutes, no wagons, no dragging of logs, no sign of the hand of man. Nature was the only woodsman, with her storms and winds, her snows and rains, to soften the soil and uproot her growing sons and daughters. There was confusion in places, even rude chaos, but in and through and above it all a cleanness, a sweetness, a purity, a grandeur, harmony, glory, beauty and majesty—all of which disappear when destroying man ...
— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James

... never been able to discover them. Love itself is hard on a woman. It seems to stir a man's faculties healthily. They seem the stronger and more fit for it. It does not seem to uproot a man's whole being. Does it serve ...
— Told in a French Garden - August, 1914 • Mildred Aldrich

... of raphia, the Mole is fixed by the hind feet to a twig planted vertically in the soil. The head and shoulders touch the ground. By digging under these, the Necrophori at the same time uproot the gibbet, which eventually falls, dragged over by ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

... which the good and great Locke must individually have inspired him, he evidently must have repudiated his precepts, inasmuch as they were not strong enough to uproot from his mind the religious truths which reason proclaims, nor prevent either his coming out of his philosophical struggle a firm believer in all the dogmas which are imperiously upheld to the human ...
— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli

... home an address to the King condemning the statements of the agent of the Episcopal clergy, and remonstrating against the establishment of a dominant church in the Province.[35] The determination to uproot the Methodists was carried so far in those by-gone days of civil and ecclesiastical despotism, that the Indians were told by executive sanction that unless they would become members of the Church of England, ...
— The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson


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