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English
Etymology
From un- + root.
Verb
unroot (third-person singular simple present unroots, present participle unrooting, simple past and past participle unrooted)
- (transitive) To tear up by the roots; to uproot.
1858, Louis Raymond Véricour, The Life and Times of Dante, page 136: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.
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