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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb uproot has 3 senses

• uproot(v = verb.social) deracinate - move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
is one way to displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

• uproot(v = verb.creation) eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"; "root out corruption"
is one way to destroy, destruct
Derived form noun uprooter₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

• uproot(v = verb.contact) deracinate, extirpate, root out - pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
is one way to displace, move
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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THESAURUS

uproot

abate, abolish, annihilate, avulse, banish, blot out, buck off, cut out, demolish, depose, deracinate, destroy, devastate, dig out, dig up, disentangle, dislodge, dismount, displace, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, eliminate, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exile, exsect, exterminate, extirpate, extract, extricate, get out, gouge out, grub up, kill, liquidate, mine, move, overthrow, overturn, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, pull, pull out, pull up, purge, quarry, rake out, ravage, remove, replace, rip out, root out, root up, ruin, shift, subvert, supersede, supplant, sweep away, take out, tear out, throw off, transfer, transplant, unearth, unhorse, unplace, unravel, unsaddle, unseat, weed out, wipe out, withdraw, wrest out

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uproot

Extraction

VB extract, draw, take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out, wring from, wrench, extort, root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out, eradicate, pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots, averruncate, unroot, uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge, remove, educe, elicit, evolve, extricate, eliminate, eviscerate, express, squeeze out, press out.

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