LekhoriLekhoriTo tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
Mark me! the Lord's hand is stretched out, and will not be withdrawn until his nest be turned up, even as the plough uprooteth and scattereth the nest of the field-mouse and the blind mole; […]
To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
[B]ravely bearing on, thy will / Is destined an eternal war to wage / With tyranny and falshood, and uproot / The germs of misery from the human heart.
Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
The act of uprooting something.
With the uproot of the Chinese commercial system in the 1890s such a crisis was bound to surface.
PIE word *wréh₂ds From up- (prefix indicating a higher direction or position) + root (“to tear up by the roots; (figuratively) to remove forcibly from a place; to eradicate, exterminate”, verb). Root...
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