Uprooting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Uprooting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of uproot.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of uproot.
More Meanings
- A tearing up.
Example Sentences
[…] the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart […]
This was reproduced by the only sound that broke their supreme embrace when, a month later, the "arrangement," as her periodical uprootings were called, played the part of the horrible forceps.
Word Forms
- uprootings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include deracinate, eradicate, extirpate, exterminate, displace, pull up.
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