pull up by the roots
81extirpate — v 1. obliterate, exterminate, expunge, eradicate, annihilate, discreate, abolish; blot out, strike out, stamp out, snuff out, crush out; devastate, destroy, demolish, ravage, desolate, ruin, Dial. ruinate, raze; efface, wipe out, do away with,… …
82uproot — v 1. extirpate, unroot, pull out by the roots, pull up, pluck up, root out, outroot, deracinate; pull out, draw out, tear out, take out, extract; excise, cut, cut out; unearth, excavate, dig up or out, grub up or out, weed out. 2. destroy,… …
83pluck up — verb Etymology: Middle English plucken up, from plucken to pluck + up, adverb transitive verb 1. : to assume an appearance of : bring to the fore : summon plucked his nerve up …
84eradicate — transitive verb ( cated; cating) Etymology: Latin eradicatus, past participle of eradicare, from e + radic , radix root more at root Date: 1532 1. to pull up by the roots 2. to do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots <… …
85deracinate — 1590s, to pluck up by the roots, from Fr. déraciner, from O.Fr. desraciner uproot, dig out, pull up by the roots, from des (see DIS (Cf. dis )) + racine root, from L.L. radicina, dim. of L. radix (see RADISH (Cf. radish)). Related …
86uproot — v. a. Eradicate, extirpate, pull up by the roots, tear up by the roots …
87extirpate — I verb abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, blot out, bring to ruin, cancel, consume, cut down, deal destruction, demolish, deracinate, desolate, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, do away with, efface, eliminate, end, eradicare, eradicate,… …
88deracinate — verb a) To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate. 1986 Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., p328: b) To force people from their homeland to a new or foreign location. ,Observing the… …
89eradicate — [16] Semantically, eradicate is an analogous formation to uproot. It comes from the past participle of Latin ērādicāre ‘pull out by the roots’, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex ‘out’ and rādix ‘root’ (source of English radical and radish …
90eradicate — [16] Semantically, eradicate is an analogous formation to uproot. It comes from the past participle of Latin ērādicāre ‘pull out by the roots’, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex ‘out’ and rādix ‘root’ (source of English radical and radish …