Usually means: Remove from original place completely.
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  1. uproot: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. uproot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. uproot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. uproot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. uproot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Uproot, uproot: Wordnik
  7. uproot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. uproot: Wiktionary
  9. uproot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. uproot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. uproot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. uproot: Dictionary.com
  13. uproot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. uproot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Uproot (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Uproot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. uproot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. uproot: Rhymezone
  19. uproot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. uproot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. uproot: Free Dictionary
  22. uproot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. uproot: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. uproot: Legal dictionary

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  1. uproot: Encyclopedia

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. uproot: Idioms

(Note: See uprooted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
verb:  (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
verb:  (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
noun:  The act of uprooting something.
verb:  (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.

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