EGAVE

uproot

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
  2. verb To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
  3. verb To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
  4. verb To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
  5. verb Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
  6. noun The act of uprooting something.
  7. verb Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.

Similar words

deracinate eradicate extirpate root out exterminate displace pull up eradication tear eliminate

Often followed by

the it and them a themselves all trees their

Word family

uprooted uprootedness uprootednesses uprooter uprooters uprooting uproots

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