rycka upp med rötterna — meaning in English

English meaning

• deracinate verb To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
• extirpate verb To clear an area of roots and stumps.

Senses

rycka upp med rötterna is used for these senses in English:

• deracinate To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
• extirpate (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.

deracinate — full definition

1. verb To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
2. verb To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
3. verb To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.

extirpate — full definition

1. verb To clear an area of roots and stumps.
2. verb To pull up by the roots; uproot.
3. verb To destroy completely; to annihilate.
4. verb To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.