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

Derived forms: uproots, uprooted, uprooting

Type of: destroy, destruct, displace, move, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]

Encyclopedia: Uproot