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up·root
(ŭp-ro͞ot′, -ro͝ot′)tr.v.up·root·ed,up·root·ing,up·roots
1. To pull up (a plant and its roots) from the ground.
2. To destroy or remove completely; eradicate.
3. To force to leave an accustomed or native location.
up·root′ed·ness n.
up·root′er n.
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uproot
(ʌpˈruːt)vb (tr)
1.to pull up by or as if by the roots
2.to displace (a person or persons) from native or habitual surroundings
3.to remove or destroy utterly
upˈrootednessn
upˈrootern
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up•root
(ʌpˈrut, -ˈrʊt)v.t.
1. to pull out by or as if by the roots.
2. to destroy or eradicate as if by pulling out roots.
3. to displace or remove violently, as from a home, country, customs, or way of life.
v.i. 4. to become uprooted.
[1610–20]
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uproot
Past participle:uprooted
Gerund:uprooting
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I uproot |
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he/she/it uproots |
we uproot |
you uproot |
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I uprooted |
you uprooted |
he/she/it uprooted |
we uprooted |
you uprooted |
they uprooted |
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I am uprooting |
you are uprooting |
he/she/it is uprooting |
we are uprooting |
you are uprooting |
they are uprooting |
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I have uprooted |
you have uprooted |
he/she/it has uprooted |
we have uprooted |
you have uprooted |
they have uprooted |
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I was uprooting |
you were uprooting |
he/she/it was uprooting |
we were uprooting |
you were uprooting |
they were uprooting |
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I had uprooted |
you had uprooted |
he/she/it had uprooted |
we had uprooted |
you had uprooted |
they had uprooted |
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I will uproot |
you will uproot |
he/she/it will uproot |
we will uproot |
you will uproot |
they will uproot |
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I will have uprooted |
you will have uprooted |
he/she/it will have uprooted |
we will have uprooted |
you will have uprooted |
they will have uprooted |
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I will be uprooting |
you will be uprooting |
he/she/it will be uprooting |
we will be uprooting |
you will be uprooting |
they will be uprooting |
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I have been uprooting |
you have been uprooting |
he/she/it has been uprooting |
we have been uprooting |
you have been uprooting |
they have been uprooting |
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I will have been uprooting |
you will have been uprooting |
he/she/it will have been uprooting |
we will have been uprooting |
you will have been uprooting |
they will have been uprooting |
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I had been uprooting |
you had been uprooting |
he/she/it had been uprooting |
we had been uprooting |
you had been uprooting |
they had been uprooting |
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I would uproot |
you would uproot |
he/she/it would uproot |
we would uproot |
you would uproot |
they would uproot |
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I would have uprooted |
you would have uprooted |
he/she/it would have uprooted |
we would have uprooted |
you would have uprooted |
they would have uprooted |
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Verb | 1. | ![]() displace - cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war" |
2. | uproot - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" | |
3. | ![]() stub - pull up (weeds) by their roots |
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uproot
verb
1.displace,remove,exile,disorient,deracinatethe trauma of uprooting them from their homes
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
uproot
verbTo destroy all traces of:
abolish,annihilate,blot out,clear,eradicate,erase,exterminate,extinguish,extirpate,kill,liquidate,obliterate,remove,root (outor up),rub out,snuff out,stamp out,wipe out.
Idioms:do away with, make an end of,put an end to.
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Translations
يَقْتَلِع
vytrhnout i s kořeny
uppræta; rífa upp meî rótum
išrauti su šaknimis
izraut ar saknēm
vytrhnúť aj s koreňmi
kökünden sökmek
uproot
[ʌpˈruːt]VT →desarraigar,arrancar (de raíz); (=destroy) →eliminar,extirparwhole families have been uprooted →familiasenteras se hanvistodesarraigadas
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
uproot
vt plant →entwurzeln; (fig:= eradicate)evil →ausmerzen;uprooted by the war →durch denKriegentwurzelt;heuprooted his whole family (from their home) and moved to New York →erriss seineFamilie aus ihrergewohntenUmgebung undzog nachNew York
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
uproot
(apˈruːt) verb to pull (a plantetc) out of the earth with the roots.I uprooted the weeds and burnt them. ontwortel, uittrek يَقْتَلِع изкоренявам desenraizar vytrhnout i s kořenyausreißen rykke op med rodξεριζώνωdesarraigar,arrancar välja juurima از ریشه درآوردن kiskoa juurineendéraciner לַעֲקוֹר מִן הַשוֹרֶש जड़ से उखाड़ना iskorijeniti gyökerestül kitép mencabut uppræta; rífa upp með rótumsradicare,estirpare 根こそぎにする 뿌리째 뽑다 išrauti su šaknimis izraut ar saknēm mencabut met wortel en al uittrekkenrykke opp med rota wyrwać z korzeniami له مونډه ويستل، له بيخه كښل، له نيلو ويستل، له سټپې ايستل، له منځ وړل، پوپنا كول، ورك كول desenraizar a dezrădăcina вырывать с корнем vytrhnúť aj s koreňmi izpuliti iskoreniti rycka upp med rötterna ถอนต้นไม้ kökünden sökmek 連根拔起 виривати з коренем, викорінювати جڑ سے اکھاڑنا nhổ bật rễ连根拔起
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The Wild Sow, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes touproot the oak, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young." Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, "Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs." Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree.
He looked up at the two perched high above him, his red-rimmed eyes blazing with insane hatred, and then he wound his trunk about the bole of the tree, spread his giant feet wide apart and tugged touproot the jungle giant.
Circles, craters, anduprooted mountains succeeded each other incessantly.
By and by, anuprooted tree, with shattered branches, came drifting along the current, and got entangled among the rocks.
The pine-trees, aged, black, and solemn, and flinging groans and other melancholy utterances on the breeze, needed little transformation to figure as Puritan elders the ugliest weeds of the garden were their children, whom Pearl smote down anduprooted most unmercifully.
Dantes redoubled his efforts; he seemed like one of the ancient Titans, whouprooted the mountains to hurl against the father of the gods.
This tree is the elephant's favourite food, and there were not wanting signs that the great brutes had been about, for not only was their spoor frequent, but in many places the trees were broken down and evenuprooted. The elephant is a destructive feeder.
There were the trunks of treesuprooted by the undermining of the river banks, giant creepers, flowers, grasses, and now and then the body of some land animal or bird.
Theuprooted trees lay on one side of the mountain trail, perhaps a mile from the mouth of the cave which had been covered over, entombing the Beecher party.
it no longer bares its bosom with so dazzling a prodigality, for it is many a day since it wasuprooted. The little dryad long since fled away weeping,--fled away, said evil tongues, fled away to the town.
Of all the strange,uprooted people among the first settlers, those two men were the strangest and the most aloof.
When I went to the forest I found the tree newlyuprooted, and the arrows lying beside it, and I feared I should never see you again.
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