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uproot::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deracinate |
| Type of | displace |
The war uprooted many people.
Examples of uproot
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Uproot wildlife so business can put up another aircraft hanger storage facility.
From the guardian.co.uk
Will people give up their jobs and uproot their families to take up such offers?
From the guardian.co.uk
Trees are less prone to uproot than they would be in an already saturated soil.
From the chron.com
Why on earth would Indonesia uproot the ownership structure of its banking system?
From the economist.com
Will younger women hang in there for twenty years and then uproot their lives?
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
The decision to uproot the Asian community, he has said, came straight from Allah.
From the time.com
When high winds knock down or uproot trees, the process is known as windthrow.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Poor execution and poor thinking not to uproot a stump and still run him out.
From the guardian.co.uk
Officials said homeless people must uproot their encampments by Monday night.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
- Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- Pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
- Uproot is a 2008 mix produced by DJ /rupture. A related compilation album Uproot: The Ingredients was co-released, which features the original recordings used in the mix.
- Uprooted is the first album by the band Absent Element, released in 2005. It also features singer/song writer Chris Daughtry. The songs "Conviction" and "Breakdown" were combined and re-recorded as the song "Breakdown" for the Daughtry CD.
