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 agency has fashioned staging areas for heavy equipment by knocking down, uprooting and attempting to transplant select specimens of the monument’s native plants. — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026 Now any chaos is on American streets, where violent and even deadly clashes have defined a deportation campaign that's designed to fulfill hardliners' goals of uprooting anyone in the country illegally. — ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026 Now any chaos is on American streets, where violent and even deadly clashes have defined a deportation campaign that’s designed to fulfill hardliners’ goals of uprooting anyone in the country illegally. — Nicholas Riccardi, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uprooting
  1. pulling
  2. prying
  3. extracting
  4. yanking
  5. plucking
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • At first there was just some casual small talk between them, then walks with their dogs, followed by dinners at pubs away from prying eyes and, finally, evenings spent cooking together.
    — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Or prying mussels off rocks along South Africa’s Cape Peninsula.
    — Rachel Levin, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of prying
Verb
  • Potential applications include recharging visiting rovers, transmitting scientific data to Earth and powering equipment used for in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), which involves extracting and processing local lunar materials.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Others are capable of evaluating trigonometric functions, extracting roots and calculating logarithms.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of extracting
Verb
  • Shortly after, the video shows the same officer yanking him to the ground, punching and kicking him.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of yanking
Verb
  • 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
Definition of plucking

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