Uproot

Quick meaning: Uproot is a verb meaning To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.

Meaning

To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.

More Meanings

1. To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
2. To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
3. (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
4. The act of uprooting something.
5. (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.

Example Sentences

See now what doubt is. It is evil, and unwise, and uprooteth many from the faith; yea, though they be very strong.

[T]hee only have I loved—for thee only have I bloomed; and when thou uprootest me from thy garden, I must wither and die.

Thou shakest the earth with the thunder of thy terror, and uprootest the huge oaks on the highest hills with the echo of thy voice.

For, having his mind set upon righteousness, and casting away maliciousness, he straightway overthroweth the evil, and uprooteth the sin.

Word Forms

• uproots
• uprooting
• uprooted

Synonyms for uproot

Depending on context, synonyms include deracinate, disroot, outroot, rout, unroot, annihilate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deracinate, eradicate, extirpate, exterminate, displace, pull up.

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