uproot
Meanings
Plural: uproots
Verb
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- "The war uprooted many people"
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
Noun
- The act of uprooting something.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*wréh₂ds
From up- (prefix indicating a higher direction or position) + root (“to tear up by the roots; (figuratively) to remove forcibly from a place; to eradicate, exterminate”, verb). Root is derived from root (“underground part of a plant”, noun), from Middle English rote, from Old English rōt, rōte, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”).
Synonyms
aerosolize, annihilate, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, deracinate, desolate, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, disroot, dissolve, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fuck, grub up, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, outroot, pull down, pulverize, race, ravage, raze, remove, root out, rout, ruin, stamp out, total, unbreed, unexist, unmake, unroot, uproot, waste, wipe off, wipe out, wreck
Scrabble Score: 8
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