pull up vs uproot

pull up

verb
  • To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to. 

  • To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins). 

  • To raise the nose of an aircraft. 

  • To cause (a horse) to stop when riding. 

  • To fetch for display on a screen. 

  • To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point. 

  • To admonish or criticize someone for their actions. 

  • To cause (a person) to stop. 

  • To lift upwards or vertically. 

  • To pull forward. 

  • To improve; to get better; to lift one's game. 

uproot

verb
  • Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere). 

  • To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly. 

  • To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate. 

  • To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up. 

  • Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout. 

noun
  • The act of uprooting something. 

How often have the words pull up and uproot occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )