uproot

Verb

• pull up by or as if by the roots
  • uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden
    

• destroy completely, as if down to the roots
  • the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted root out corruption
    

• move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
  • The war uprooted many people
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  extirpate , deracinate , root out , eradicate , exterminate