Crossword clues for uproot
uproot
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uproot \Up*root"\, v. t. To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
Trees uprooted left their place.
--Dryden.
At his command the uprooted hills retired.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate. 2 (context by extension English) To remove utterly; to eradicate.
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, extirpate, exterminate]
pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn: extirpate, deracinate, root out]
Wikipedia
Uproot is a 2008 mix produced by DJ /rupture. A related compilation album Uproot: The Ingredients was co-released, which features the original recordings used in the mix.
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.