[
US
/əˈpɹut/
]
[ UK /ʌpɹˈuːt/ ]
[ UK /ʌpɹˈuːt/ ]
VERB
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pull up by or as if by the roots
uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden -
destroy completely, as if down to the roots
the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted
root out corruption -
move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
The war uprooted many people
How To Use uproot In A Sentence
- Pakistan should cooperate with India in uprooting this. Understanding Mumbai, India and terrorism : Law is Cool
- We know of young people who have been uprooted from their homes and placed in provincial centres where they are used as fodder in the great experiment. Times, Sunday Times
- Electricity is still in short supply and 12,000 trees have been uprooted, apparently. Times, Sunday Times
- Rising waters would uproot prosperous farmers from the fertile riverbanks, forcing an estimated 100,000 people to move to higher ground where they could no longer plant corn and wheat.
- A hunter-gatherer couple stand by an uprooted tree. Times, Sunday Times
- The floods left a tide of mud and uprooted trees.
- Sporting thin, jagged leaves upon a succulent, fleshy stem, the herb is easily uprooted and replanted due to its shallow root system.
- As the sun beats down on Africa, a woman in a veld in the Eastern Cape of South Africa is hunched over her task - uprooting a species of flowering plant.
- Amidst all that humbles and scathes; amidst all that shatters from their life its verdure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of existence writeth a sudden and "strange defeature," -- they stand erect, -- riven, not uprooted, -- a monument less of pity than of awe! The Disowned — Complete
- Many Eastern and Southern Indian nations were uprooted and forced to remove themselves beyond the Mississippi River.