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 The prologue starts in 1986 in Newfoundland with a family relocating, uprooting their lives in the most all-encompassing of ways, taking their entire home — propped up on a barge and steered by a lone motorboat — across a bay. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026 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

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Reggie Tongue had a 7-yard fumble return for a touchdown that resulted in the Chargers pulling quarterback Erik Kramer from the game and replacing him with Jim Harbaugh, who is now the team’s current coach.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026
That includes making your bed, folding clothes, even pulling on a sweatshirt, where your nails are at risk of getting caught and pulling.

— Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of pulling

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Or prying mussels off rocks along South Africa’s Cape Peninsula.

— Rachel Levin, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
Musk already has this via Larry, a close business associate who bankrolled the Twitter buy, but writing an eleven-figure check has a funny way of prying open the canal further.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

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However, extracting it from underground brines, hard rock and recycled batteries remains challenging because it is often mixed with sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
While Evernote sought to combat negative new registrations after its acquisition, Inkdrop’s developer was less concerned about growing its customer base and more interested in extracting additional revenue from current users.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026

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According to a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the doctors gave the man a topical treatment to numb his eyes and then began plucking out the worms one by one with fine forceps.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 26 Oct. 2026
Pai Skincare Bright Now Exfoliating Toner, $49 Organic is not as simple as plucking some flowers and putting them on your face.

— Brianna Peters, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026

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