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

1. transitive verb. To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
2. verb. pull up by or as if by the roots

   "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"

   Synonyms: deracinate, extirpate

3. verb. destroy completely, as if down to the roots "root out corruption"

   "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"

   Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, extirpate

4. verb. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment

   "The war uprooted many people"

   Synonyms: deracinate

Synonyms

deracinate, extirpate, eradicate, exterminate

Common word forms

uproots, uprootal, uprooted, uprooter, uprooting

Words from these letters

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