uproot🔊

(transitive)

To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.

(figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.

(figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.

(reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).

The act of uprooting something.

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.