UPROOTED Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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Recent Examples of uprooted Clemency after the 1948 war During the Arab-Israeli war between 1947 and 1949, some 750,000 Palestinians were uprooted from their homes. — Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026 Nearby, the winds uprooted trees and flipped a truck on its side. — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2026 In 2019, when the husband’s work uprooted the family to Seattle, the pair kept the Eichler and rented it out, never quite thinking of the move as permanent. — Kristen Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026 Among those who had been displaced, 70 percent had been uprooted three or more times. — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026 Security turned out to be the exception and the narrative as a whole has mostly been uprooted. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026 Many people in northern Ethiopia, including the neighboring regions of Amhara and Afar, were uprooted from their homes and tens of thousands of were believed to have been killed. — ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026 Nantz said the town’s contractors have started stump removal for the scores of trees that were uprooted. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026 Their mothers taught them how to cook Palestinian food after geopolitical turmoil uprooted their families to the United States. — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2026

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Shohei Ohtani emerged from the visiting dugout at American Family Field with a bat in his hand, and the mass of media members scattered in foul territory up the third-base line shifted his way, pulled by the magnetic force that is Ohtani’s stardom.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
On Wednesday, the Congressional Leadership Fund, the House Republicans' super PAC, effectively dropped its push to boost Tijerina and pulled millions of dollars in ads from the district, a person familiar with the decision confirmed.

— Justin Papp, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of pulled

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Their opportunity came during the cross-examination of Elizabeth Riddell, an FBI case manager who had extracted messages and other data from the cellphones of defendants in the case.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026
Both the driver and semi were taken to the Newton-Azrak Station in Murrieta, where hazardous response specialists extracted the liquid contents from the tank, which tested positive for meth, the release said.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of extracted

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Ignoring that rule could get flood insurance coverage yanked for an entire community.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
Wi-Fi is not free on those services; T-Mobile used to comp at least an hour of connectivity for subscribers, but quietly yanked that benefit in April.

— Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of yanked

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During fall, a train window serves as the perfect perch for leaf-peeping in river valleys aglow in crimson and gold or passing through small towns that look like they’ve been plucked from a Hallmark movie.

— Lauren Dana Ellman, Midwest Living, 15 Oct. 2026
As the party winded down, guests plucked final bites off silver platters and marveled at how tall Skarsgård truly is in person—his nearly six-foot-five frame barely fit under the bar’s low ceilings.

— Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026

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