deracinate

Verb
Synonyms: uprootextirpateroot out

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

  1. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment“The war uprooted many people”Synonyms: uproot
  2. pull up by or as if by the roots“uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden”Synonyms: uprootextirpateroot out
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Deracinate \De*rac"i*nate\ (d[-e]*r[a^]s"[i^]*n[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deracinated (d[-e]*r[a^]s"[i^]*n[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Deracinating (d[-e]*r[a^]s"[i^]*n[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [F. d['e]raciner; pref. d['e]- (L. dis) + racine root, fr. an assumed LL. radicina, fr. L. radix, radicis, root.] To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.] [1913 Webster]

While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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