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To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

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  1. v. t. To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
  2. v. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
  3. v. pull up by or as if by the roots
  4. v move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment v pull up by or as if by the roots