Dictionary entry

Root (5)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Root, v. t. 1. To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; — used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.

2. To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; — with up, out, or away. “I will go root away the noisome weeds.” Shak.

The Lord rooted them out of their land... and cast them into another land. Deut. xxix. 28.