Sekirov Dictionary

uproot

/ˌʌpˈɹuːt/

verb 5
noun 1
forms 5

verb5

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To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- Mark me! the Lord's hand is stretched out, and will not be withdrawn until his nest be turned up, even as the plough uprooteth and scattereth the nest of the field-mouse and the blind mole; […] — 1832
[with oneself] Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
(figurative) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
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(figurative) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- [B]ravely bearing on, thy will / Is destined an eternal war to wage / With tyranny and falshood, and uproot / The germs of misery from the human heart. — 1813
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.

noun1

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The act of uprooting something.
- With the uproot of the Chinese commercial system in the 1890s such a crisis was bound to surface. — 2014

forms

uprooted · uprooting · uprooteth · uproots · uprootest

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