UPROOT


Meaning of UPROOT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʌpru:t ]

( uproots, uprooting, uprooted)

1.

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

...the trauma of uprooting themselves from their homes...

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

...refugees who were uprooted during Ethiopia’s civil war.

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

2.

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

...fallen trees which have been uprooted by the storm.

...uprooted trees.

VERB : V n , V-ed

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