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Uproot
- verb - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
- pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
Upshot
- noun - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;
Urchon
- - The urchin, or hedgehog.
Uropod
- - Any one of the abdominal appendages of a crustacean, especially one of the posterior ones, which are often larger than the rest, and different in structure, and are used chiefly in locomotion. See Illust. of Crustacea, and Stomapoda.