extraction (as of a plant and its roots from the ground); complete eradication; displacement of something from its native environment
pull a plant and its roots out of the ground; extirpate, root something out completely; displace, remove from a native environment
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Uprooting Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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1. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
(synonym) displace, deracinate
(hypernym) place
2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
(synonym) eradicate, extirpate, exterminate
(hypernym) destroy, destruct
(derivation) destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter
3. pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
(synonym) extirpate, deracinate, root out
(hypernym) move, displace
Uprooting Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Uprooting is the third studio album from Warsaw Village Band.
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