uproot Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Up*root" transitive verb
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913