UPROOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uproot mean? 

• UPROOT (verb)
  The verb UPROOT has 3 senses:

1. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment

2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots

3. pull up by or as if by the roots

  Familiarity information: UPROOT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPROOT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they uproot    ... he / she / it uproots   
Past simple: uprooted   
Past participle: uprooted   
-ing form: uprooting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

deracinate; uproot

Context example:

The war uprooted many people

Hypernyms (to "uproot" is one way to...):

displace (cause to move, usually with force or pressure)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Destroy completely, as if down to the roots

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

eradicate; exterminate; extirpate; root out; uproot

Context example:

root out corruption

Hypernyms (to "uproot" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

uprooter (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pull up by or as if by the roots

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

deracinate; extirpate; root out; uproot

Context example:

uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden

Hypernyms (to "uproot" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "uproot"):

stub (pull up (weeds) by their roots)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

You seem fine with that, even though as a fixed sign, you tend to avoid uprooting yourself.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heart-strings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sometimes being uprooted can be positive, for it makes us reexamine our decisions and allows us either to passionately  recommit to our original goals or leave them and make new ones.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)