unplantv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈplɑːnt/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈplant/, U.S. /ˌənˈplænt/ transitive. To remove (a plant) from the soil; to dig up. Also (figurative): to remove, to displace. Also intransitive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [verb (transitive)] > other processes
unplant1552
ingentle1622
blanch1669
tack1693
colonize1816
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel
afferreOE
warpc1000
outdriveOE
wreakc1100
to cast out1297
to cast fortha1382
out-chasec1395
flecchea1400
to shoot forth, out, awaya1400
propel?1440
expulse?a1475
scour1488
out-thrust1532
to catch forthc1540
propulse1548
pulsec1550
unplant1552
to turn out of ——1562
extrude1566
detrude?1567
eliminate1568
deturbate1570
detruse1571
unroost1598
to put by1600
deturb1609
bolt1615
run1631
disembogue1632
out of1656
expel1669
rout1812
to manage (a person) out of1907
1552 J. Veron in R. Estienne Dictionariolum Puerorum Explanto, to vnplant, or pull vp.
1569 J. Hawkins True Declar. Troublesome Voy. sig. B.iiv Ye vice Roy..sent..commaundement to vnplante all things suspicious.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 163 Being enioyned by our Commission not to vnplant nor wrong the Saluages.
a1658 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 47 He..Unplanted had this Plantane plant.
1737 E. Lewis Let. 30 June in J. Swift Lett. (1768) VI. cxlvi. 202 Lord Bathhurst is in Glocestershire, where he plants, transplants, and unplants.
1778 E. C. Craven Sleep-walker i. ii. 9 Milord is a fortune to us gardiners; he plants, and den he unplants..always doing or undoing someting.
1862 Atlantic Monthly May 548/1 I want it [sc. a garden] to be unplanted, and planted with vegetables.
1896 Daily News 6 Oct. 5/7 To-day the high wind made it necessary to unplant and shorten the trunks of the Vosges pines.
1913 G. Tabor Suburban Gardens xi. 193 It is quite as essential an element of successful gardening to know how to unplant as it is to know how to plant.
1964 Ann. Math. 80 311 In order to prevent us from planting too much of C in D, we must have a method of unplanting members of C already planted in D.
2003 Telegram & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) (Nexis) 12 May c1 Half the time he's unplanting what Mr. O'Shea has planted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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