Crossword clues for uprooting
Wiktionary
n. A tearing up. vb. (present participle of uproot English)
Wikipedia
Uprooting may refer to:
- in the context of agriculture, the removing of a plant
- In the context of French wine production, the destroying of less desirable vineyards : see Vine pull schemes
- in the context of human migration, a possible synonym for exile
Usage examples of "uprooting".
The hooves of steeds had churned the earth to mud, uprooting the young shoots which now lay torn to shreds.
Doli was no longer listening to the bard, but was passing hasty orders to the Fair Folk warriors, who unslung their axes and, with all speed, began chopping and hacking at the trees, uprooting underbrush and racing with their burdens to the lake.
Blackie had done exactly as she had instructed, uprooting that walled rose garden where Edwin Fairley had so inhumanly and shamefully repudiated her and their child, which she had been carrying.
I even thought of taking them to New York with me, but that would be uprooting them unnecessarily.
Waddell was not thrilled with the prospect of his wife either spending a year away from him in another city to teach grade anything-after-eight, or with uprooting himself and moving somewhere for a job of hers.