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uproot

 verb
     
Related topics: Gardening
up‧root [intransitive and transitive]
1DLG to pull a plant and its roots out of the ground
2 to make someone leave their home for a new place, especially when this is difficult or upsetting:
He rejected the idea of uprooting himself and moving to America.
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