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Meaning of uproot

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  uproot
      v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and
           foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn:
           {uproot}, {deracinate}]
      2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of
         political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
         [syn: {uproot}, {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" [syn: {uproot}, {extirpate},
         {deracinate}, {root out}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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