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How to sign: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
"The war uprooted many people";
Similiar / Same: deracinate, displace
Categories: place
How to sign: destroy completely, as if down to the roots
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted";
Similiar / Same: extirpate, eradicate, exterminate
How to sign: pull up by or as if by the roots
"uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden";
Similiar / Same: root out, extirpate, deracinate
