uproot
uh prooht
- v move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
The war uprooted many people - v destroy completely, as if down to the roots
the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption - v pull up by or as if by the roots
uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden
- Often they are summoned by adult children too busy or too distant to help parents uproot from a family home or from one level of care to another in a retirement community.
- The battle to uproot and eliminate those networks may yet take years, but it will be waged primarily by the world's law enforcement and intelligence services.
- The combination of these laws and human-level intelligence gathering (infiltration and interrogation of suspects) helped France successfully uproot terrorist networks in the mid .