unroot

present singular third person unroots · participle present unrooting · participle past unrooted · past unrooted

1. transitiveTo tear up by the roots; to uproot.

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   He commences new explorations, more learned and more extensive, and finally, he discovers that the vulgar language of Italy, the one which is illustre, cardinale, &c., exists in all the cities, without belonging exclusively to any of them; it is the mother of idiom, or head of the family, which sows useful seeds, unroots venomous herbs.

   1858, Louis Raymond Véricour, The Life and Times of Dante, page 136