Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

         Trees uprooted left their place.         --Dryden.

         At his command the uprooted hills retired. --Milton.

Source : WordNet®

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}]