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

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
lexinfo:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:eradicate
  2. enl:exterminate
  3. enl:extirpate
  4. enl:root out
  5. enl:uproot
wn:interlingual indexili:i30044

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labeleradicateexterminateextirpateroot outuproot