uproot
英 [?p'ru?t]
美[,?p'rut]
- vt. 根除，連根拔起；迫使某人離開出生地或定居處
- 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"