Definitions for uproot

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uproot up·root

Spelling: [uhp-root, -roo t]

IPA: /ʌpˈrut, -ˈrʊt/

Uproot is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in uproot (ooprtu).

Definitions for uproot

verb (used with object)

1. to pull out by or as if by the roots:
2. to remove violently or tear away from a native place or environment:
3. to destroy or eradicate as if by pulling out roots:
4. to displace, as from a home or country; tear away, as from customs or a way of life:

verb (used without object)

1. to become uprooted.

Origin of uproot

First recorded in 1610-20; up- + root²

Examples for uproot

Nor did these efforts in any way “uproot” or “displace” Palestinian society.

His whole object is to check those actions and uproot that apathy.

It would be enormously disruptive, and unpopular, to uproot them over night.

Grunty Pig meant to uproot the apple tree where they had their nest.

Not everyone has the resources to uproot themselves and move to a "right to die" state, as Brittany and her family have done.

Or, to be on the safe side, I'll say he could uproot your tree in ninety-nine summers.

On the bucket of a bulldozer that had been previously used to uproot the trees in Gezi Park it says, “ I am Free!”

This should not discourage the grower or cause him to uproot his trees.

There was no real reason to leave Austria, Freud believed, so why uproot the entire family?

How long do you think it will take Grunty Pig to uproot our tree?