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1. Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
   "The war uprooted many people"
   - deracinate
    
2. Destroy completely, as if down to the roots
   "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
   - eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
    
3. Pull up by or as if by the roots
   "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
   - extirpate, deracinate, root out

Derived forms: uprooted, uprooting, uproots

See also: uprooter

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