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Pull from the ground
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uproot
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn: displace , deracinate ] destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" [syn: eradicate ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN tree ▪ The trunk is powerful enough to uproot trees or tear great limbs from their upper branches. ▪ Then the army arrived with a bulldozer, leaving a flattened morass of dust and uprooted trees about 30 metres square. ...
Usage examples of uproot.
Seemed like our little bit of land had been uprooted and had gone adrift, far out to sea.
But will this apologist for crime not tremble constantly himself when he has uprooted from every heart the very thing to which of necessity he owes his preservation?
Xavier uproots my pet araucaria and bears it across the garden into the conservatory I protest at the top of my voice.
It took a minute of frantic uprooting for Lugg to get to the source, but when he finally did, he found Byrt sitting contentedly in a bamboo-barred cage.
All Kyte got was uprooted from his neighborhood, an unwanted new dad and a stuck-up law school prig for a brother.
He believed Pietism the only means of uprooting the long-existing corruptions of education, society, and religion.
He stormed and took the castles of rebel vassals between Tours and Poitiers, razing their walls and burning their ruins, uprooting orchards and vineyards, leaving terror in his wake, and filling the dungeons of Normandy with the captives that he seized.
Directorate operatives get reassigned, uprooted, their biographies rewritten, networks detached and reassembled.
Gesturing with his hands, the old man had uprooted the tree, then re-formed it into a canoe-type craft.
Bass made his location check, the reinforced platoon that was the Bravo unit reached an area where a recent temblor had tumbled many large boulders to the valley floor and uprooted most of the trees on the steep slopes.
Few of the recruits could identify the sound, a dull roar punctuated by heavy thumps, the sound of boulders and uprooted trees bouncing down the stream, which was in flood, as were all the streams and rivers in that part of Arsenault during the monsoon season.
The uprooted trees, and the huge trunks broken off by the final upheaval of the earth, made the old gentleman look very serious indeed.
Worthy using a chain saw on the uprooted tree, I decided to pay a visit to the Hookes.
Then, as the monster curved around as if stalking its prey, Selim uprooted the drum, gathered his tools, and motioned for the youth to follow.
Mistress Summerton had been bound in roses to the wooden mast of an uprooted sign which still pointed lopsidedly towards the Tropic Wing, then hoisted amid all the wreckage which had been borne here.