Verb (used with object) : The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles. ,The industrial revolution uprooted large segments of the rural population. ,The conquerors uprooted many of the native traditions. ,to uproot a people.    From Dictionary.com. 

It actually reminds me of those uprooter droids in Star Wars, in a half lot category of way.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.awesomeblogs.com] Reference

Or from the hideous devilfish of the Gulf, -- gigantic, flat-bodied, black, with immense side-fins ever outspread like the pinions of a bat, -- the terror of luggermen, the uprooter of anchors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chita: a Memory of Last Island] Reference

The uprooter of Greece's domain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference