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uproot
(encz) | uproot,vykořenit v: Zdeněk Brož |
Uproot
(gcide) | Uproot \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.
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Trees uprooted left their place. --Dryden.
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At his command the uprooted hills retired. --Milton.
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uproot
(wn) | uproot
v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and
foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn:
uproot, deracinate]
2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of
political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
[syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out,
exterminate]
3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has
spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate,
deracinate, root out] |
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uproot
(encz) | uproot,vykořenit v: Zdeněk Brož |
uprooter
(encz) | uprooter, n: |
uproot
(wn) | uproot
v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and
foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn:
uproot, deracinate]
2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of
political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
[syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out,
exterminate]
3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has
spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate,
deracinate, root out] |
uprooter
(wn) | uprooter
n 1: a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a
destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer";
"uprooters of gravestones" [syn: destroyer, ruiner,
undoer, waster, uprooter] |
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