Meaning

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

verb destroy completely, as if down to the roots

verb pull up by or as if by the roots

originFrom up- (prefix indicating a higher direction or position) + root (“of a pig or other animal: to dig or turn up with the snout; to search as if by digging in soil, rummage”, verb). Root is derived from Middle English wroten (“to dig or turn up with the snout; to remove soil, dig up”), from Old English wrōtan (“to dig or turn up with the snout”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig or turn up…

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