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  • verb Present participle of uproot.
  • noun A tearing up.

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Examples

  • Please, do not take this wrong, I do support and condone your part in uprooting and exposing those who claim to be other than they are or were.

    SHAWN PAUL AKERS 2010

  • Well I hope she keeps her seat available if she don't succeed in uprooting this clone of BUSHS 'from the governor's seat.

    Barbour hopes Hutchison stays in Senate 2009

  • The unnamed first-person narrator of the eight linked stories in Love and Obstacles survives a similar uprooting from the Balkans to the Midwest.

    2009 September 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Pakistan should cooperate with India in uprooting this.

    Understanding Mumbai, India and terrorism : Law is Cool 2008

  • The causes for this uprooting are always different, but the result is the same: the uprooted have lost what they had and where they came from and must start life again as handicapped strangers wherever they are allowed to live.

    The Arabs of Palestine 1969

  • The causes for this uprooting are always different, but the result is the same: the uprooted have lost what they had and where they came from and must start life again as handicapped strangers wherever they are allowed to live.

    The Arabs of Palestine 1961

  • The causes for this uprooting are always different, but the result is the same: the uprooted have lost what they had and where they came from and must start life again as handicapped strangers wherever they are allowed to live.

    The Arabs of Palestine 1961

  • It took her husband time to get used to the idea of uprooting, and she admits her grown children had concerns.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • It took her husband time to get used to the idea of uprooting, and she admits her grown children had concerns.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Likud rejects the idea of uprooting Jewish settlements or sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinians, she said, adding that "if two states for two peoples was such a magic solution, the Palestinians could have been celebrating their eighth independence day."

    news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com 2009

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