| VERB | social | uproot, deracinate | move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment |
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| creation | uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate | destroy completely, as if down to the roots | |
| contact | uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out | pull up by or as if by the roots |
| Sounds | ahpruw't | |
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| Rhymes | absolute ... tribute: 83 rhymes with uwt... | |
| Meaning | Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Example | "The war uprooted many people" | |
| Synonym | deracinate | |
| Broader | displace | Cause to move, usually with force or pressure |
| Spanish | desarraigar | |
| Catalan | desarrelar | |
| Meaning | Destroy completely, as if down to the roots. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted""root out corruption" | |
| Synonyms | eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate | |
| Broader | destroy, destruct | Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of |
| Spanish | desarraigar, erradicar, exterminar, extirpar | |
| Catalan | desarrelar, erradicar, exterminar, extirpar | |
| Nouns | uprooter | a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to |
| Meaning | pull up by or as if by the roots. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" | |
| Synonyms | extirpate, deracinate, root out | |
| Narrower | stub | Pull up (weeds) by their roots |
| Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
| Spanish | desarraigar, erradicar, extirpar, extraer, sacar | |
| Catalan | desarrelar, extirpar, extraure, extreure, treure | |
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