You can uninstall or removes an installed node-highlight package itself from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) through the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get remove node-highlight
If you would like to remove node-highlight and it's dependent packages which are no longer needed from Ubuntu,
$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove node-highlight
If you use with purge options to node-highlight package all the configuration and dependent packages will be removed.
$ sudo apt-get purge node-highlight
If you use purge options along with auto remove, will be removed everything regarding the package, It's really useful when you want to reinstall again.
$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove node-highlight