v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and
foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
[syn: displace, deracinate]
2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges
of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: eradicate, extirpate, exterminate]
3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has
spread all over the garden" [syn: extirpate, deracinate, root out]