Dictionary Entry
uproot
uproot is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
- 2verb
pull up by or as if by the roots
"uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
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- 3verb
destroy completely, as if down to the roots "root out corruption"
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
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- 4verb
move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
"The war uprooted many people"
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