uproot

英 [?p'ru?t] 美[,?p'rut]
  • vt. 根除，連根拔起；迫使某人離開(kāi)出生地或定居處
  • vi. 遷離；改變生活方式

英英釋意

1. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment;
"The war uprooted many people"
2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
3. pull up by or as if by the roots;
"uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"