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- Dictionaryuproot/ˌʌpˈruːt/
verb
- 1. pull (something, especially a tree or plant) out of the ground: "the elephant's trunk is powerful enough to uproot trees" Similar Opposite
- 2. move (someone) from their home or a familiar location: "my father travelled constantly and uprooted his family several times"
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UPROOT definition: 1. to pull a plant including its roots out of the ground: 2. to remove a person from their home or…. Learn more.
The meaning of UPROOT is to remove as if by pulling up. How to use uproot in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Uproot.
UPROOT meaning: 1. to pull a plant including its roots out of the ground: 2. to remove a person from their home or…. Learn more.
to destroy or eradicate as if by pulling out roots: root: The conquerors uprooted many of the Native traditions. Synonyms: remove, eliminate, banish, extirpate. to displace, as from a home or country; tear away, as from customs or a way of life: to uproot a people.
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.
When you uproot people, you move them from one place to a completely new one. Your parents may need to uproot you if your mom gets a new job all the way across the country. One meaning of the verb uproot is "move," especially when a person is forced to move.
v.t. 1. to pull out by or as if by the roots. 2. to destroy or eradicate as if by pulling out roots. 3. to displace or remove violently, as from a home, country, customs, or way of life. v.i. 4. to become uprooted. [1610–20]
[transitive] uproot something to pull a tree, plant, etc. out of the ground. The storms uprooted a number of large trees.
uproot definition: 1. to pull a tree or plant out of the ground: 2. to make someone leave a place where they have…. Learn more.
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. [...] 2. If someone uproots a tree or plant, or if the wind uproots it, it is pulled out of the ground. [...] More. Conjugations of 'uproot' present simple: I uproot, you uproot [...]
