Hypertext Webster Gateway: "uproot"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Uproot \Up*root"\, v. t.
To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots;
to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
Trees uprooted left their place. --Dryden.
At his command the uprooted hills retired. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
uproot
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}]
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