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单词 uproot
释义 Verb: uproot  úp'root
  1. Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
    "The war uprooted many people"
    - deracinate 
  2. Destroy completely, as if down to the roots
    "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
    - 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"
    - extirpate, deracinate, root out

Derived forms: uprooted, uprooting, uproots

See also: uprooter

Type of: destroy, destruct, displace, move, spifflicate, spiflicate

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