uprooting

Plural: uprootings

Verb

• move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
• destroy completely, as if down to the roots
• pull up by or as if by the roots
• present participle and gerund of uproot

Noun

• A tearing up.

Synonyms

deracinate, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out, uproot