uproot
英[ʌp'ruːt]美[,ʌp'rut]
- vt. 根除，连根拔起；迫使某人离开出生地或定居处
- vi. 迁离；改变生活方式
英英释意
- 1. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment;
- "The war uprooted many people"
- 2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
- "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
- 3. pull up by or as if by the roots;
- "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"