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}]