uproot

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots

   To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.

   • Mark me! the Lord's hand is stretched out, and will not be withdrawn until his nest be turned up, even as the plough uprooteth and scattereth the nest of the field-mouse and the blind mole; […]
   • Thou shakest the earth with the thunder of thy terror, and uprootest the huge oaks on the highest hills with the echo of thy voice.
2. 2

   To destroy (something) utterly

   To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.

   • [B]ravely bearing on, thy will / Is destined an eternal war to wage / With tyranny and falshood, and uproot / The germs of misery from the human heart.
   • For, having his mind set upon righteousness, and casting away maliciousness, he straightway overthroweth the evil, and uprooteth the sin.
3. 3

   To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and…

   To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.

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   1. 4

      Of oneself or someone

      Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).

   2. 5

      The act of uprooting something.

      • With the uproot of the Chinese commercial system in the 1890s such a crisis was bound to surface.
   3. 6

      Of a pig or other animal

      Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.

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