UPROOT


Meaning of UPROOT in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

1.

If you ~ yourself or if you are ~ed, you leave, or are made to leave, a place where you have lived for a long time.

...the trauma of ~ing themselves from their homes...

He had no wish to ~ Dena from her present home.

...refugees who were ~ed during Ethiopia’s civil war.

VERB: V pron-refl, V n, be V-ed

2.

If someone ~s a tree or plant, or if the wind ~s it, it is pulled out of the ground.

...fallen trees which have been ~ed by the storm.

...~ed trees.

VERB: V n, V-ed

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