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say it: uh-PROOT
uproot is a verb meaning "move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment". It carries 3 recorded senses.
move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
“The war uprooted many people”
pull up by or as if by the roots
“uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for uproot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.