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uprooted

 
Verb uproot has 3 senses
  1. displace, uproot, deracinate - move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
    --1 is one way to place
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  2. uproot, eradicate, extirpate, exterminate - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
    --2 is one way to destroy, destruct
    Derived form: noun uprooter1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  3. uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out - pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
    --3 is one way to move, displace
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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