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 up·root /(ˌ)əpˈrut, ˈrʊt/
 (vt.)連根拔起,根除

 Up·root v. t. To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
    Trees uprooted left their place.   --Dryden.
    At his command the uprooted hills retired.   --Milton.
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 uproot
      v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and
           foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
           [syn: displace, deracinate]
      2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges
         of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: eradicate,
          extirpate, exterminate]
      3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has
         spread all over the garden" [syn: extirpate, deracinate,
          root out]