Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
UPROOT
uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out
(verb) pull up by or as if by the roots; “uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden”
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
(verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots; “the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted”; “root out corruption”
uproot, deracinate
(verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; “The war uprooted many people”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
uproot (third-person singular simple present uproots, present participle uprooting, simple past and past participle uprooted) (transitive)
To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate.
(by extension) To remove from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
(figurative) To destroy utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
Synonym: benothing
Synonyms
• (to root up): deracinate, disroot
• See also destroy
Anagrams
• root up
Source: Wiktionary
Up*root", v. t.
Definition: To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate. Trees uprooted left their place. Dryden. At his command the uprooted hills retired. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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