UPROOTING Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

uprooting

verb

present participle of uproot

as in pulling

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 uprooting Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are uprooting their lives across the Atlantic. — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 20 Aug. 2026 Earlier this month, bulldozers were videoed uprooting trees and shoveling dirt as wild animals trotted by. — Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026 But even if Ellison makes good on his threat, uprooting one of Hollywood’s oldest studios, along with its workforce and decades of production infrastructure, wouldn’t be easy. — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2026 Three of the tornadoes touched down in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, uprooting trees, damaging homes and knocking out power to numerous utility customers. — Michelle Simmons, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 Damage can range from broken limbs, split trunks, uprooting, and crown twist, when winds cause the tree to twist and potentially crack or damage the trunk. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2026 Tasks include trailblazing and uprooting invasive weeds at the adjacent Richardson Grove State Park; river beach cleanups; painting barns, auditoriums, cabins and kitchen walls; building benches and greenhouses; and planting fruit trees. — Savita Patel, Mercury News, 26 July 2026 Families and physicians warn that uprooting residents with Alzheimer’s can trigger dangerous decline, while a severe shortage of specialized beds in the South Bay deepens a looming public health crisis. — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026 Then, in May, on the beaches around the Vjosa Delta, considered the last wild river on the continent, bulldozers arrived and began uprooting pine trees, flattening dunes, and opening access routes. — Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026

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In addition to pulling TikTok ads in the US, the policy will also restrict them in Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

— Emma Roth, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
Cyclovia is about people who have turned a simple machine into a way of surviving, celebrating and dreaming, and John’s whole body of work is about pulling Latin stories out of the margins and into the centre of the culture.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026

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Or two birds face-to-face in close proximity, covering themselves with their wings as if to share a secret kiss away from prying eyes, could evoke a giggle.

— Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
Davidson was thrust into a reality-TV world of prying paparazzi and untold media scrutiny.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

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The Falcon-Emirati model and related tools for speech recognition and extracting Arabic text from images and documents are relatively compact.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Over the past quarter century, foreign direct investment across sub-Saharan Africa has remained relatively flat—around two to three percent as a share of GDP—and most of it has gone to extracting oil, diamonds, and gold and other minerals.

— Jared Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of extracting

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Zabransky was the first person to reach Rabb in the end zone, yanking him into the air for a bear hug.

— Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 3 Oct. 2026
There’s also an ending that revels in a form of catharsis — for the audience watching the play, not the movie — before yanking that, too, away.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026

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LLMs are great at finding blowups that exist—at searching the infinite landscape of fluid scenarios and plucking out the precise situation that breaks the equations.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
Fortunately, many dahlia insect problems in September can be solved by walking through the garden in the morning and plucking the offending insects off the plants by hand, then dropping them into a container of soapy water.

— Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2026

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