Uproot

(verb.) pull up by or as if by the roots; 'uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden'.

(verb.) destroy completely, as if down to the roots; 'the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted' 'root out corruption'.

(verb.) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; 'The war uprooted many people'.

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• Consequently a drift of the uprooted Italian population to the towns, and particularly to Rome, began. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The masses of 1919, on the other hand, had been uprooted everywhere, to go into the armies, to go into munition factories, and so on. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They were uprooted men; they did not fret to go home, because they had no homes to go to. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The nineteenth century wantons in its giant adolescence; the Titan boy uproots mountains in his game, and hurls rocks in his wild sport. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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