What's the difference between exterminate and uproot?

Exterminate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drive out or away; to expel.
  • (v. t.) To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
  • (v. t.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
  • (2) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
  • (3) Almost 300 survivors of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz gather on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of their liberation, in what for many will be the last such commemoration.
  • (4) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
  • (5) "We have no reason to hope now that the Serbs will go through catharsis and acknowledge that the non-Serbs in Prijedor had been killed, tortured, exterminated, raped."
  • (6) Reinfestation from within or outside the project area must also be taken into account.These and other aspects are discussed in relation to experience gained from a successful extermination project carried out in the Sudan vegetation zone and from present control activities in the Northern Guinea vegetation zone.
  • (7) Ingestion of an improperly stored liquid pesticide was the most common route of intoxication (76% of patients); five (14%) children became intoxicated after playing on carpets and floors of homes that had been sprayed or fogged by unlicensed exterminators.
  • (8) Prosecutors have concentrated the charge on the period between May and July 1944, the time of the mass deportation of Hungary’s Jewish community to Auschwitz when 137 trains brought 425,000 people to Auschwitz, of whom at least 300,000 were exterminated.
  • (9) (When a nest was discovered in Gloucestershire last year, the government quickly moved to exterminate it.
  • (10) Trapper moving 30,000 bees from South Austin oak tree What happened: When bees become disruptive in cities, local governments are favoring the relocation of bees over extermination.
  • (11) As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
  • (12) Their imaginations are populated with superheroes, evil geniuses, mutant animals and androids that exterminate anyone who mentions homework.
  • (13) The consequences of continued increase of greenhouse gases extend far beyond extermination of species and future sea level rise.
  • (14) There are reasonable grounds to believe that the conduct described amounts to extermination as a crime against humanity.” Tens of thousands of detainees are held by President Bashar al-Assad’s government at any one time, and thousands more have “disappeared” after being arrested by state forces or gone missing after abduction by armed groups, the report said.
  • (15) The 56-page indictment said he prepared lists of Tutsis to be "exterminated", referring to them as "cockroaches" – a term notoriously used by those behind the genocide.
  • (16) Grossman was a Soviet Jewish journalist who covered the battle of Stalingrad and the liberation of the Treblinka extermination camp.
  • (17) Mechanisms prohibiting such hybridization in the natural habitat may have broken down under heavy predation pressure which finally resulted in the local extermination of M. nemestrinia.
  • (18) Like Gröning, neither of them are known to have directly killed, but they were in the camp when at least 1.1 million Jewish people, as well as tens of thousands of non-Jewish Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Sinti and Roma, were exterminated.
  • (19) Cane toads and cats, for example, have simply exterminated small marsupials.
  • (20) Indeterminacy takes the form of alternative competitive outcomes: in some replicate cultures one species exterminates the other with a probability, say p, whereas in others, the opposing species wins with a complementary probability, 1-p.

Uproot


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
  • (2) At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Netanyahu declared he would not “uproot a single settler” from the Jordan Valley.
  • (3) Israel's illegal settlements are so entrenched that uprooting them to make way for a viable Palestinian state has become impossible.
  • (4) The government will need to continue with extra-judicial killings, commonly called crossfire, until terrorist activities and extortion are uprooted."
  • (5) He wrote: "You cannot uproot this extremism unless you go to where it originates and fight it.
  • (6) The insurgency is now less of a military threat , after seven years of conflict that have killed tens of thousands of people , uprooted millions, damaged local economies and cross-border trade, and spread to the Lake Chad basin states of Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
  • (7) They have also retrofitted old-style nationalism for their growing populations of uprooted citizens, who harbour yearnings for belonging and community as well as material plenitude.
  • (8) 'During the war, my grandparents were often uprooted - they moved in and out of London, and even came over here to America - but their Steinway always went with them and had to be squeezed up crooked staircases wherever they lodged.
  • (9) That violence – often ethnically motivated – killed more than 1,000 people and uprooted 600,000 from their homes.
  • (10) Barack Obama He lays out a list of strategic objectives to combat Isis, including the rallying of global opinion; cutting off flows of cash and the movement of foreign fighters; and uprooting jihadi networks from safe spaces online.
  • (11) Referring to what the report describes as a "hostile culture", she gave the example of women with children who have limited room to manoeuvre because managers know they are unlikely to uproot their family and move elsewhere.
  • (12) Even here, there seems to be little desire, or knowledge, of how people will uproot themselves when the doors to countries like Britain are finally flung open.
  • (13) In some rice field situations, however, they may become pests that uproot and eat young rice plants.
  • (14) Echoing one of his most famous early speeches, Bin Laden told “brothers ... in the Islamic Maghreb” their job was “to uproot the obnoxious tree by concentrating on its American trunk”, and to avoid being occupied with the local security forces.
  • (15) The great uprooting of children through the bedroom tax, benefit cuts and the benefit cap will accelerate the churn.
  • (16) Higher tax doesn't make executives uproot their families, not even from one US state to another.
  • (17) The initial phase of uprooting them is very difficult,” he added.
  • (18) Greste turned to his mother and father, Juris and Lois, who uprooted their lives to spend much of last year in Egypt, and wrapped an arm round them both.
  • (19) There are plenty of decent people who voted for leave who do not want to see Europeans who live in the UK in our communities forced to uproot their lives,” he said.
  • (20) The little things.” Lastly, he paid tribute to his relatives, some of whom uprooted their lives for months on end to support him in Egypt , and said above all he wanted to “spend time with my family.

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