Synonym: extract, pull out, remove, withdraw. Antonym: establish. Similar words: rooted, grassroots, Supreme, supreme court, room, roof, boot, foot. Meaning: v. 1. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment 2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots 3. pull up by or as if by the roots.
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31. The family decided to uproot themselves and emigrate to Australia.
32. The gens attempted to uproot the entire conjugal system of the period by its direct action.
33. A bad habit once contracted takes a very long time to uproot ( or root up ).
34. If the Maoists'political goals seem unattainable, analysts warn they will be easy to uproot, either.
35. Time required to uproot a tree is about a minute.
36. Now they are returning home and the unemployed mason, who is also a preacher, quotes Ecclesiastes: "A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot.
37. For it would be fire that consumes to Abaddon, And would uproot all my increase.
38. They had been forced to uproot their vines and plant wheat.
39. Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.