释义 |
Verb: uproot úp'root- Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
"The war uprooted many people" - deracinate - Destroy completely, as if down to the roots
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" - eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate - Pull up by or as if by the roots
"uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" - extirpate, deracinate, root out
Derived forms: uprooted, uprooting, uproots See also: uprooter Type of: destroy, destruct, displace, move, spifflicate, spiflicate |