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unˈroot, v.
[un-2 4 b and 7.]
1. trans. To tear, pluck, or dig up by the roots. Also in fig. context and transf.
1570Levins Manip. 178 To vnroote, eradicare. 1593G. Harvey New Letter B 3, Riotous Vanitie was wont to roote so deeply, that it could hardly be vnrooted. 1601Shakes. All's Well v. i. 6 Be bold you do so grow in my requitall, As nothing can vnroote you. 1635Shirley Coronat. iv, His love was firm to you, and cannot be Unrooted with one storme. 1687Dryden Song St. Cecilia's Day vii, Trees unrooted left their Place. 1740Pitt æneid vi. 9 To feed the fires, [some] unroot the standing woods. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. I. 133 There are sometimes whole plains unrooted from the main lands, by floods and tempests. 1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. iii. 130 The causes that unroot these weeds at depths where..the sea is but slightly agitated.
b. fig. To eradicate, clear away, remove or detach altogether. Also unˈrooting vbl. n.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. ii. 8 Forto meete aȝens the firste bifore spoken opinioun, and forto vnroote and updrawe it. Ibid., This vnrooting of the first opinioun. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 181 Vices be so euill to be vnrooted where they once take place. 1603G. Owen Pembrokeshire iii. (1892) 36 The Conqueror..purposed to haue vnrooted the Saxon or Englishe tongue out of England. Ibid. iv. 38 He gaue diuerse of them theire ancient landes to hold of him, and did not vtterlye vnroote them. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 277 They unrooted and destroyed all that good to Society. 1856Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 419 My present idea, if nothing should arise to unroot me sooner, is to stay here until the middle of May.
2. intr. To lose root-hold; to withdraw the root from the soil.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca iii. i, Make their strengths totter, and their topless fortunes Unroot and reel to ruine. c1800W. Blake Four Zoas, Last Judgem. 39 The trees unroot; The rocks groan horrible and run about. |