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Thesaurus: uproots

v move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment v destroy completely, as if down to the roots v pull up by or as if by the roots

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  1. v move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment v destroy completely, as if down to the roots v pull up by or as if by the roots