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uprootverb to draw out by force or with effortuprooted the old bridge's pilings upon the completion of its replacement corkscrew, extract, prize, pry, pull, root (out), tear (out), wrest, wring, yank mine, pluck, remove, take (out), withdraw implant, insert, install, instillcram, jam, ram, stuff, wedge exterminate, extirpate, eradicate, uproot mean to effect the destruction or abolition of something.exterminate implies complete and immediate extinction by killing off all individuals.exterminate cockroaches extirpate implies extinction of a race, family, species, or sometimes an idea or doctrine by destruction or removal of its means of propagation.many species have been extirpated from the area eradicate implies the driving out or elimination of something that has established itself.a campaign to eradicate illiteracy uproot implies a forcible or violent removal and stresses displacement or dislodgment rather than immediate destruction.the war uprooted thousands ca. 1620 |