Word Finder - uprooted

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To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate.

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(by extension) To remove from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.

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To destroy utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.

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• benothing

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(of a plant) Having been fully removed, including the roots.

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(by extension) Having been removed from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.

In others the petty tyrants whom thc Visconti had uprooted reappeared.

He was a little lost, like they had been after their lives were uprooted by their parent's deaths.

It is like a great uprooted tree with its roots in the air.

Many small saplings have been uprooted or cut down to make lines easier.

Larger plants may be used to shield plants from heavy winds or strong sun and prevent the more tender plants from being uprooted or from wilting.

You have uprooted an old kindness, sir, with an unsparing hand.

Here, uprooted tree stumps are arranged to form a natural sculpture that provides a safe haven for woodland plants and wildlife.

Low yields resulting from coulure resulted in it eventually being uprooted.

He successfully has uprooted and replanted some of the old vines while preserving many of the best, particularly the Petite Sirah.

Summerland follows the lives of the uprooted children, their aunt and her three housemates as they struggle to cope with their new living situation and adjust to life as an extended quasi-family.

Within a few months the ageing master uprooted himself from Milan, and moved with his chattels and retinue of pupils to Rome, into the service of the house that first befriended him, the Medici.

Already in 982 Maelsechlainn had invaded Thomond and uprooted the venerable tree under which the Dalcais rulers were inaugurated.

There was an old saying that people who uprooted the mandrake would die within a year.

Hoe or hand pull before flowering, easily uprooted.

He added that if all went well, by 2005, polio would be completely uprooted from the country.

Unfortunately Queen Anne, who hated yew, had it all uprooted and redesigned the garden.

No sooner have you uprooted a weed than it grows back !

Our children are like uprooted plants struggling to survive in a pot .

Israeli occupation had uprooted the Palestinian people from their lands.

The storm swamped 23,000 hectares of crops, and uprooted over 28,000 cashew trees.

The small number of Palestinian Arabs who were not uprooted by the Zionists in 1948 are at present refugees in their own homeland.

It is easily uprooted by hand or by hoeing, remove the debris if flowers and seed-pods are present.

This will discourage the roots from spreading out and cause a weak plant that is easily uprooted.

The 10th of August uprooted his party, his paper and his friends, and the management of relatives who kept him out of the way in Normandy alone saved him from the massacre of September.

At its close the green must be carefully examined, weeds uprooted, worn patches re-turfed, and the whole laid under a winter blanket of silver-sand.

The victims of this process were the urban proletariat, whose treatment by their employers in trade became less and less protective and beneficent, and the nobility, straitened in their financial resources, uprooted from their ancient strongholds, and gradually despoiled of their power by a monarchy based On popular support.