Pull up by or as if by the roots - uproot, extirpate, deracinate
Destroy completely, as if down to the roots "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" - uproot, eradicate, extirpate, exterminate
Derived forms: rooting out, roots out, rooted out
Type of: destroy, destruct, displace, move, spifflicate, spiflicate