uproot

up|root /ʌpr'uːt/ (uproots uprooting uprooted)
1 [VERB] V pron-refl, V n, be V-ed
If you uproot yourself or if you are uprooted, you leave, or are made to leave, a place where you have lived for a long time.
...the trauma of uprooting themselves from their homes...
He had no wish to uproot Dena from her present home.
...refugees who were uprooted during Ethiopia's civil war.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
If someone uproots a tree or plant, or if the wind uproots it, it is pulled out of the ground.
...fallen trees which have been uprooted by the storm.
...uprooted trees.

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