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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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
The extension of the ceasefire also covers the current war between Israel and Hezbollah, which has uprooted more than a million people from their homes.
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Daniel Depetris,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
Trees in Orlando were uprooted, signs blew down, a frame building collapsed after an oak fell on top of it, and power was out for days.
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Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
In 2015, the founders laid off the entire team, took a $150,000 emergency loan from Zhao’s mother, and uprooted to lower-cost Japan.
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Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
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
The extension of the ceasefire also covers the current war between Israel and Hezbollah, which has uprooted more than a million people from their homes.
—
Daniel Depetris,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
Trees in Orlando were uprooted, signs blew down, a frame building collapsed after an oak fell on top of it, and power was out for days.
—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
In 2015, the founders laid off the entire team, took a $150,000 emergency loan from Zhao’s mother, and uprooted to lower-cost Japan.
—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uprooted
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Cape Verde almost pulled the biggest upset in World Cup history.
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Garibay’s one-handed save denied Jonathan Ricketts a sure goal in the 64th minute, and Moon pulled a 30-yard opportunity off a poor corner kick clearance just wide left.
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If extracted, that water could support astronauts, provide oxygen and be split into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel.
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For instance, the region is thought to abundant with water ice – a valuable resource that could be extracted and used for drinking, breathing and as a source of hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel.
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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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My sternum was fractured, my rib cage pried open.
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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.
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On the walls, black-and-white printouts of newspaper articles, magazines and book pages looked like they were plucked from a Pinterest board on scrapbooking.
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Despite his young age, the then 36-year-old was far from a nobody plucked from the ether, though.
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“Uprooted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uprooted. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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