as in to pry
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 uproot
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.
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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.
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Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
17 June 2026
Both in the past and in the present, Euphoria uproots Ali from the comfortable four walls of the diner.
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Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
The tornado in Jefferson County left behind snapped tree limbs and uprooted trees, NWS said.
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Finch Walker,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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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
Both in the past and in the present, Euphoria uproots Ali from the comfortable four walls of the diner.
—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uproot
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Fire alarms sounded after a resident pulled the alarm, prompting crews to evacuate buildings as a precaution.
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Sorloth played high, facilitating Arsenal midfielder Martin Odegaard to rotate wide and pull deeper to get on the ball.
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For the past couple of years, volunteers have cut grass, trimmed and yanked out invasive vines.
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Roberts quickly gave up a run-scoring single to Christian Yelich and was yanked with the bases loaded and no outs.
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Once sufficient displays of submission had been extracted, would the bankrollers of the civic-education movement redirect their largesse back toward places like that?
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Those contracts call for Next Hydrogen to design and deliver an electrolyzer that extracts tritium from heavy water, a critical process for preparing fuel used in future fusion reactors.
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It’s meant to be as is her ability to pluck him from the clouds and pin him to the table with her directness.
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But when they’re plucked from the garden and washed, some of the wax washes away.
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“Uproot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uproot. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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