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uprootings

uprootings is the plural of uprooting.

Meaning of uprooting

Noun

uprooting (plural uprootings)

  1. A tearing up.
    • This was reproduced by the only sound that broke their supreme embrace when, a month later, the "arrangement," as her periodical uprootings were called, played the part of the horrible forceps.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew

Questions about uprootings

What is uprootings the plural of?
Uprootings is the plural of uprooting.

Words near uprootings in the dictionary

  1. uprooter
  2. uprooters
  3. uprootest
  4. uprooteth
  5. uprooting
  6. uprootings
  7. uproots
  8. uprore
  9. uprose
  10. uprouse
  11. uproused

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