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 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 Investigators said a 2023 Toyota four-door pickup was traveling westbound on Pea Ridge Road when a large oak tree uprooted and fell across the roadway, landing directly on the cab of the truck. — Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 19 June 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 The tornado in Jefferson County left behind snapped tree limbs and uprooted trees, NWS said. — Finch Walker, USA Today, 17 June 2026

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The Rangers had a rough stretch during the seventh when Eovaldi got pulled after allowing one run.

— Cal Phillips Updated July 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 July 2026
Valya volunteers to detach Venera 7’s bathysphere, knowing that he’ll be pulled toward Venus, and will certainly die there.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 July 2026

Definition of pulled

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Forty years of decisions, regulatory adaptations and market responses have never been extracted.

— Nitin Rakesh, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Instead, the metadata from that audio and images would be extracted and uploaded to the server for Meta’s AI to query, which proponents argue would have fewer privacy implications.

— Jay Peters, The Verge, 8 July 2026

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Then, five days after the best start of his young MLB career coincided with one of his worst moments, he was yanked after just 2 1/3 innings in Sunday’s 11-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

— Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Winco also yanked about 13,500 Roman Candles 8 Shot 3-Pack Firework Devices.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026

Definition of yanked

Verb

My sternum was fractured, my rib cage pried open.

— Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
Lonnie has plenty stacked against him, not least of all his own son, who is inching closer to surpassing his status in the golf world — people are even starting to call him the Hawk, a torch that had to have been pried out of his father’s hand.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026

Definition of pried

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In the past, studios have plucked influencers from their online niche and slotted them into whatever mainstream production needed a face.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Every individual tea leaf grown at Wild Orchard is plucked by hand, totaling about 100 kilograms per day during peak harvest season.

— Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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