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uprooted

[uhp-root, -root] Origin

up·root

[uhp-root, -root]
verb (used with object)
1.
to pull out by or as if by the roots: The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles.
2.
to remove violently or tear away from a native place or environment: The industrial revolution uprooted large segments of the rural population.
3.
to destroy or eradicate as if by pulling out roots: The conquerors uprooted many of the native traditions.
4.
to displace, as from a home or country; tear away, as from customs or a way of life: to uproot a people.
verb (used without object)
5.
to become uprooted.

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Origin:
1610–20; up- + root2

up·root·ed·ness, noun
up·root·er, noun


3. extirpate, banish, eliminate, remove.

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Word Origin & History

uproot
1593 (implied in uprooted), in the fig. sense, from up + root. The literal sense is first recorded 1695.
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