uproot
uproot
英[ˌʌpˈru:t]美[ʌpˈrut, -ˈrʊt]
vt.根除，连根拔起，把…赶出家园，使无家可归；
vi.迁离，改变生活方式，根除，灭绝；
第三人称单数：uproots;
过去式：uprooted;
过去分词：uprooted;
现在分词：uprooting;
例句
We decided to uproot and head for Scotland.我们决定迁往苏格兰。
They had been forced to uproot their vines and plant wheat.他们已被迫将葡萄藤连根拔除，改种小麦。
He had no wish to uproot Dena from her present home.他没想过让德娜离开现在的家去别处居住。
Work commitments forced her to uproot herself and her son from Reykjavik.她的工作迫使她和儿子从雷克雅未克搬走。
英语六级真题
But for real trees, it's harder to uproot.
2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
VERB
使离开久住之处；使迁移他处居住
If you uproot yourself or if you are uprooted, you leave, or are made to leave, a place where you have lived for a long time.
例句
...the trauma of uprooting themselves from their homes...背井离乡给他们造成的心灵创伤He had no wish to uproot Dena from her present home.他没想过让德娜离开现在的家去别处居住。VERB
把…连根拔起；根除
If someone uproots a tree or plant, or if the wind uproots it, it is pulled out of the ground.
例句
They had been forced to uproot their vines and plant wheat.他们已被迫将葡萄藤连根拔除，改种小麦。...fallen trees which have been uprooted by the storm.被暴风雨连根拔起、倒伏在地上的树木英汉词典释义
vt.
把(某物)连根拔起;根除
The typhoon uprooted numerous trees.台风把许多树连根拔起。赶走;把...赶出家园
Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood.水灾令许多人背井离乡。vi.
迁离;改变生活方式
英英词典释义
Verb
1. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment;
"The war uprooted many people"2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
"the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"3. pull up by or as if by the roots;
"uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
