uprootn.
/ˈʌpruːt/, U.S. /ˈəpˌrut/ An uprooted tree.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by quality or health > [noun] > fallen or uprooted
rower1442
windfall1464
root-fall1584
down timber1837
deadfall1883
uproot1891
timber-fall1897
1891 E. Roper By Track & Trail iii. 33 Stumps and logs and fallen trees, uproots and old dead weeds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
uprootv.1
/ˌʌpˈruːt/, U.S. /ˌəpˈrut/ a. transitive. To tear up by the roots; to remove from a fixed position.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)]
stira1000
unsheathec1374
removea1398
shifta1400
disroom1489
supplant1534
unplacec1550
displace1552
unperch1578
dislodge1579
unsiege1594
disnest1596
unroost1598
unset1602
unseat1611
dis-element1612
dishabita1616
dislocate1623
disroota1625
disseata1625
rede1638
discardinate1648
disturb1664
disblock1665
start1676
uproot1695
disrest1696
disconcert1744
disannul1794
deplace1839
delocalize1855
disembed1885
disniche1889
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > root out or up
louka1000
morec1325
roota1387
unroot?a1425
stubc1450
roota1500
rid?1529
root-walt?1530
subplant1547
supplant1549
root?1550
grub1558
eradicate1564
to stump up1599
deracinate1609
uproot1695
aberuncate1731
eracinate1739
rootle1795
disroot1800
piggle1847
1695 W. Congreve Pindarique Ode on Namure viii. 6 Uprooting Hills..To form the High and Dreadful Scale.
1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xxvi. 14 The river..Down the vale thunders; and..Uproots the grove.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 475 Storms and hurricanes sometimes happen, which..uproot trees.
1839 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (new ed.) 368 Mr. Cymon..uprooted the chairs, and removed them further back.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxv. 185 We were powerfully shaken, but had no fear of being uprooted.
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 171 The stalks are not uprooted and carried across the field.
b. figurative. To remove as by tearing up; to eradicate, exterminate, destroy.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > eradicate or extirpate
fornimOE
to put awaya1382
outroot?a1425
unroot?a1425
out-razec1425
to pluck up1484
avell1530
sweep1560
depopulate1576
ruina1586
assoil1596
to lay aside1596
untop1598
displant1603
float1606
to take off1619
amolish1624
uproota1639
eradicate1647
to lay by1681
to polish off1827
uprend1911
to zero out1951
a1639 J. Dyke Right Receiving of Christ (1640) xiv. 193 Before wee can be rooted in Christ, we must be un-rooted and up-rooted in regard of our naturall condition.
1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iii. xxiv. 52 Tear forth, uprooted from the youthful Breast, The Seeds of each deprav'd Desire.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ix. 120 Uproot The germs of misery from the human heart.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. viii. 173 That he acted on any settled scheme of uprooting the nationality, the laws, or the language of England is an exploded fable.
Derivatives
upˈrootal n.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > rooting out or up
rooting1533
extirpation1675
uprooting1775
uprootal1861
1861 Macmillan's Mag. 10 22 He would have shrieked like a mandrake at uprootal.
1890 W. C. Russell My Shipmate Louise II. 285 The sudden uprootal and crash of their one mast and sail.
upˈrooter n.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > eradication or extirpation > one who or that which eradicates or extirpates
extirperc1503
voiderc1528
rooter1560
disperser1580
depeller1597
eradicator1659
extirpator1706
dispeller1717
uprooter1828
dispellent1869
extirpationist1881
1828 Campbell On Battle of Navarino 10 No! your lofty emprise was to fetter and foil The uprooter of Greece's domain!
1882 Blackwood's Mag. 132 102/2 War..—that remorseless and violent uprooter of ordinary life.
upˈrooting n. and adj.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun]
displacing1551
dislodge1587
dislocation1604
displantinga1616
elocation1649
dislodgement1728
uprooting1775
displacement1803
disrooting1826
rooting1876
delocalization1887
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > [noun]
flemeOE
exilec1330
flemingc1374
relegationc1425
sequestrationa1450
exulation1535
extermination1586
deportation1595
exportationa1610
displantation1614
elimination1623
discommonwealthing1647
ejection1655
self-exile1712
uprooting1775
expatriation1816
dissettlement1880
uprootedness1927
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > rooting out or up
rooting1533
extirpation1675
uprooting1775
uprootal1861
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [adjective] > uprooting
upriving1626
uprooting1775
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Uprooting.
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV clxxiii. 89 The uprooting wind which tears The oak from his foundation.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Coll. Wks.: Poems (1996) II. 66 But the end of all is Sadness,..Spoliation and Uprooting!
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table x. 279 The uprooting of the ancient gravestones in..our city burialgrounds.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. viii. 127 Should there come no preternatural uprooting tempest.
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2. intransitive for reflexive. To uproot oneself, esp. to move away and thereby sever oneself from one's origins or accustomed environment.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > change residence
remove1388
flit1504
shift1530
to pull up stakes1703
movea1707
emigrate1841
uproota1961
to pick up stakes1974
a1961 ‘N. Shute’ in Webster (at cited word) He's nearly 60, and that's awfully old to uproot and leave everything and everyone you know.
1970 M. Sarton Jrnl. 30 Oct. (1973) 49 When the time comes, I don't want to uproot, however much I may complain about the loneliness here.
1975 Times 10 Apr. 16/4 It is too easy simply to say that these people should uproot and follow the jobs.
1989 Guardian 12 Aug. 18/7 I came very close to accepting but decided my lifestyle is such that I could not uproot and leave Australia at this stage.
1991 Harper's Mag. Jan. 47/2 I spoke with two New Yorkers who were leaving forever, uprooting in early middle age, a lesbian couple fleeing the megalopolis to find a new home.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
uprootv.2
/ˌʌpˈruːt/, U.S. /ˌəpˈrut/ transitive. To grub up.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > grub or root about in the earth
wrootc1000
root?1544
rout1569
nuzzle1637
uproot1726
rootle1795
snout1857
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xviii. 36 Those teeth.., Like some vile swine's, that..Uproots the bearded corn.
1889 A. R. Wallace Darwinism 16 Some [herbivorous mammals] uproot and devour the buried tubers.
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