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Verb: root out  root awt
  1. Pull up by or as if by the roots
    - uproot, extirpate, deracinate
     
  2. Destroy completely, as if down to the roots
    "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon eradicated" "root out corruption"; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon exterminated" "root out corruption"
    - uproot, eradicate, extirpate, exterminate

Derived forms: rooted out, roots out, rooting out

Type of: destroy, destruct, displace, move, spifflicate, spiflicate

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