uproot

Meanings

Verb

• move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
  • "The war uprooted many people"
• destroy completely, as if down to the roots
  • "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
• pull up by or as if by the roots
  • "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"

Synonyms

deracinate, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out