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• The branches eventually rotted off once the tree was uprooted.From the entry rot off
• They uprooted tents and physically pushed the Travellers and their belongings into the street.1986, Sharon Gmelch, Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman (Biography), →ISBN, page 237. From the entry rahoonery
• Magnus called it “kraken,” the name it bears in Norwegian literature (“krake” means “uprooted tree”).1985, William J. Kelly, “The Kraken Mystery”, in The Explorer, pages 27–31. From the entry krake
• Uprooting one's life is inherently difficult, and the current geopolitical climate is not exactly welcoming to would-be climate migrants.2024 April 15, Matthew Rozsa, Salon. From the entry climate refugee
• Body parts are scattered about the cemetery where bombs have landed, uprooting the corpses from their flimsy paper-mache coffins.2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234. From the entry Chapei
• The earth split open into wide fissures and thousands of sink-holes, trees were uprooted and railroad tracks buckled.1998, Richard O'Neill, “Big Trouble in China”, in Natural Disasters, Parragon, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18, column 3. From the entry sink-hole
• Overhead a buzzard soared, circling several times then flew down to a tree uprooted in the pathway - waiting and watching his intended victim.2019 January 10, Margaret Wiese, Margene Wiese-Baier, Wymans Creek, WestBow Press, →ISBN. From the entry surveiler
• Naturalists, often trivializingly dubbed “botanists,” hunted, fished, shot, trapped, caught, cut, or uprooted any species on mere suspicion of its being unknown.2008, Regine I. Heberlein, Writing a national colony, page 104. From the entry trivializingly
• I was taking Valerie's kid to the Central Park Zoo when the Phobosians and the Deimosians started uprooting the city's power cables.2002, Peter Crowther, Mars Probes, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry Deimosian
• I feel uprooted from the vital connections to Salley, to home, stranded with only the mountain and my fellow madmen as company.1998, Greg Child, Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas, page 185. From the entry expedition
• Every year he cultivates several paddocksful of swedes, which in mid to late winter are uprooted; the sheep are then allowed to forage.1992, Elvin Hatch, “The Criterion of Farming Ability”, in Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand, University of…. From the entry paddockful
• For instance, repeated shaking can be hazardous—gusty winds uproot trees at speeds well below those of steady winds and at forces lower than those predicted by experimental winchings.2013, Steven Vogel, Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World, 2nd edition. From the entry winching
• But Okonoriyaa continued to uproot the plants for the chewing sponge, and whilst she was in the middle of doing that, she suddenly heard a child crying.2012 (September), Seth Kojo Kweij: Some Things You Can’t Restore. In: Johannes Preuss (ed.): Ananse Stories told in Ghana. In: Bea Lundt…. From the entry chewing sponge
• The batsmen took an easy single as the ball approached the fieldsman but Gambhir called for a second on the throw and Franklin uprooted the non-striker's stumps.2009 March 19, AAP, “India 4-278 at stumps”, in Herald Sun. From the entry fieldsman
• Those with fewest attachments or obligations may be most vulnerable to transitions from a more rooted life, before flight, to the new as-yet unrooted or uprooted life.2002, Peter Loizos, “Chapter Two: Misconceiving refugees?”, in Renos K. Papadopoulos, editor, Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like…. From the entry rooted
• Why, every 20 years, does Japan rebuild its most sacred shrine, uprooting the sun goddess Amaterasu from her old sanctum and resettling her in a new one?1993 October 7, David E. Sanger, “Ise Journal; Sun Goddess's Sojourn (Will Shinto's Star Rise?)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry sun goddess
• The storm that raged in him to-night could not uproot this hatred, the mightiest tree in all John’s country, all that remained to-night, in this, John’s floodtime.1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints). From the entry floodtime
• Out front was a clean dirt yard with every vestige of grass patiently uprooted and the ground scarred in deep whorls from the strike of Livvie’s broom.1943, Eudora Welty, “Livvie”, in The Wide Net and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., page 156. From the entry dirt yard

Meaning of uproot

1. verb To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
2. verb To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
3. verb To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.

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How do you use uproot in a sentence?

Uproot is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The branches eventually rotted off once the tree was uprooted.”

What is a short sentence with uproot?

“The branches eventually rotted off once the tree was uprooted.”

What does uproot mean?

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