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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Uproot  \Up*root"\,  v.  t. 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  uproot 
  v  1:  move  (people)  forcibly  from  their  homeland  into  a  new  and 
  foreign  environment;  "The  war  uprooted  many  people" 
  [syn:  {displace},  {deracinate}] 
  2:  destroy  completely,  as  if  down  to  the  roots;  "the  vestiges 
  of  political  democracy  were  soon  uprooted"  [syn:  {eradicate}, 
  {extirpate},  {exterminate}] 
  3:  pull  up  by  or  as  if  by  the  roots;  "uproot  the  vine  that  has 
  spread  all  over  the  garden"  [syn:  {extirpate},  {deracinate}, 
  {root  out},  {pull  up}] 




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