uprooted

Verb (1)

uproot (third-person singular simple present uproots, present participle uprooting, simple past and past participle uprooted)

1. (transitive) 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 the Lord's hand is stretched out, and will not be withdrawn until his nest be turned up, even as the plough uprooteth and scattereth the nest of the field-mouse and the blind mole; […]1832, Mrs. S[amuel] C[arter] Hall [i.e., Anna Maria Hall], chapter XIV, in The Buccaneer. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […] (late Colburn and Bentley), →OCLC, pages 272–273

   Synonyms:

   deracinate, disroot, grub up, outroot, rout, unroot

2. (figuratively, transitive) 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, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto IX”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 120

   Synonyms:

   annihilate, obliterate, destroy, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash

3. (figuratively, transitive) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
   • [H]ave ye a Sultan who ruleth over you and is tyrannical in his rule and under whose hand you are; one who, if any of you commit an offence, taketh his goods and ruineth him and who, whenas he will, turneth you out of house and home and uprooteth you, stock and branch?1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Pilgrim Man and the Old Woman”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the...
4. (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).

Verb (2)

uproot (third-person singular simple present uproots, present participle uprooting, simple past and past participle uprooted)

1. (transitive) 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.

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