Synonyms of uprooted

uprooted

verb

past tense of uproot

as in pulled

to draw out by force or with effort

uprooted the old bridge's pilings upon the completion of its replacement

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pulled
• extracted
• yanked
• pried
• plucked
• removed
• tore (out)
• prized
• rooted (out)
• corkscrewed
• wrested
• wrung
• took (out)
• mined
• withdrew

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• installed
• inserted
• implanted
• instilled
• stuffed
• jammed
• crammed
• wedged
• rammed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of uprooted

One tree not only uprooted a sidewalk but also smashed a parked car. — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 13 July 2026

Trees uprooted, snapped NWS damage inspectors found the most concentrated damage where the tornado tracked east across Dirty Ankle Road and Ankle Road. — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 11 July 2026

Some 250 trees were planted along Shepard Road in 2024, only for 60 of them to be uprooted or vandalized a month later, followed by another 32 trees a year after that. — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 8 July 2026

After a similarly vicious storm struck the New York area late Friday, hundreds of thousands of utility customers were left without power, trains to New Jersey were canceled and thousands of trees were damaged or uprooted. — Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026

When Taylor got a development deal with RCA Records at just 13 years old, the family uprooted themselves from Pennsylvania to the Nashville area to advance her career. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 3 July 2026

The horrific legacy of slavery, which produced inequities and exclusion, will not be uprooted with resolutions and holidays. — Marcus Anthony Hunter, Time, 19 June 2026

It was originally named the Frederick Douglass Colored School and was located in a downtown Black neighborhood called Quakertown, which was uprooted by a bond election for a park. — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026

Inside Ecole National Republique de Colombie in the Turgeau neighborhood where 1,246 individuals live in squalor, residents uprooted by gangs described lives defined by deepening hunger and increasingly inhumane conditions. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 June 2026