[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

uproot \uproot"\, v. t.
   to root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots;
   to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
   1913 webster

         trees uprooted left their place.         --dryden.
   1913 webster

         at his command the uprooted hills retired. --milton.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

uproot
     v 1: move people forcibly from their homeland into a new and
          foreign environment; "the war uprooted many people"
          syn: displace, deracinate
     2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges
        of political democracy were soon uprooted" syn: eradicate,
         extirpate, exterminate
     3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has
        spread all over the garden" syn: extirpate, deracinate,
         root out
see also:
displace deracinate eradicate extirpate exterminate root out 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

80 moby thesaurus words for "uproot":
   abate, abolish, annihilate, avulse, banish, blot out, buck off,
   cut out, demolish, depose, deracinate, destroy, devastate, dig out,
   dig up, disentangle, dislodge, dismount, displace, draw, draw out,
   dredge, dredge up, eliminate, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate,
   excise, exile, exsect, exterminate, extirpate, extract, extricate,
   get out, gouge out, grub up, kill, liquidate, mine, move,
   overthrow, overturn, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, pull, pull out,
   pull up, purge, quarry, rake out, ravage, remove, replace, rip out,
   root out, root up, ruin, shift, subvert, supersede, supplant,
   sweep away, take out, tear out, throw off, transfer, transplant,
   unearth, unhorse, unplace, unravel, unsaddle, unseat, weed out,
   wipe out, withdraw, wrest out

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