verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
tree
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The trunk is powerful enough to uproot trees or tear great limbs from their upper branches.
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Then the army arrived with a bulldozer, leaving a flattened morass of dust and uprooted trees about 30 metres square.
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The road widening will uproot 46 oak trees and damage wildlife habitat.
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It could plow through 900 homes and uproot 6, 000 trees .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In 1854, my grandfather decided to uproot his family and move to Los Angeles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A further practice of goldfish is their digging habits, which will soon uproot plants.
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He was born in Kalandya in 1956, two years after his parents were uprooted from a farm village west of Jerusalem.
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The great dislocation and uprooting that this seismic shift entails have had at least two results.
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The trunk is powerful enough to uproot trees or tear great limbs from their upper branches.