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Definition of uproot in English: uprootverbʌpˈruːt [with object]1Pull (something, especially a tree or plant) out of the ground. 连根拔除 the elephant's trunk is powerful enough to uproot trees 大象鼻子有足够力量把树连根拔起。 Example sentencesExamples - Very many trees were uprooted by the combination of high winds and sodden ground.
- More than 6,000 trees were uprooted and many electricity poles were knocked down.
- Emergency services were deluged with calls at the weekend as strong winds blew through the county causing structural damage to buildings, uprooting trees and turning over vehicles.
- For the first time in more than 300 years, a tornado touched down in Pittsburgh on June 2, 1998, ripping off roofs, uprooting trees and downing power lines.
- When the skies open up over the desert, watercourses alter, rivers gouge out deep channels and tracks, roads break up, trees are uprooted and our dramatic countryside changes yet again.
- As a result the club has closed off the upstairs until further notice. A poplar tree was also uprooted by the wind, falling across a pavement on Thornham Drive in Astley Bridge.
- Elsewhere in deforested Haiti, wind gusts uprooted a palm tree and flung it into a mud hut, killing one person and injuring three in southern Les Cayes town, the Red Cross said.
- Torrential rain was said to be flooding eastern Jamaica with punishing winds knocking down power lines, uprooting trees and ripping off roofs.
- As the sun beats down on Africa, a woman in a veld in the Eastern Cape of South Africa is hunched over her task - uprooting a species of flowering plant.
- It was accompanied by a rapid temperature drop, and a squally wind change strong enough to uproot trees and unroof about 50 houses.
- Instead, the palm trees are uprooted and rotting on the sand, which is hidden by rubble and rubbish.
- Elsewhere in Britain motorways and minor roads were closed as lorries overturned, trees were uprooted and chimney stacks were toppled by 90 mph gusts.
- Their trunk is employed to pull branches off trees, uproot grass, pluck fruit, and to place food in their mouths.
- It doesn't automatically give us the power to uproot trees and cast them into the sea.
- Powerful gusts uprooted trees, twisted steel towers and knocked down bridges, rendering many roadways impassable.
- In the latest incident, early this week thugs uprooted a tree which had been planted in 1973 to celebrate friendships formed on an exchange between Shipley and Hamm in Germany, which were later officially twinned.
- The storm's winds were strong enough to uproot trees and to knock people off their feet.
- Meanwhile, heavy rain, recorded at 59.2 mm by the Met Department, flooded several areas and uprooted trees in various parts of the City.
- The industrialization of agriculture after the Second World War, with its attendant use of chemicals and uprooting of hedgerows, has destroyed the habitat of many familiar plants and animal species.
Synonyms pull up, root out, take out, rip out/up, tear up by the roots, grub out/up rare deracinate - 1.1 Remove or destroy completely; eradicate.
a revolution is necessary to uproot the social order 根本改变现行社会秩序需要革命。 Example sentencesExamples - City officials argue that officers need more elbow room to photograph, tape and infiltrate political and social organizations to uproot terror networks.
- Millions have had their homes destroyed, their lives uprooted, and their futures decimated.
- Instead, I recommend you join the global struggle to uproot this vile system.
- Consequently, they search for new ways to eradicate disparities in income, seeking additional means of uprooting poverty.
- Civic unrest infiltrated every corner of the globe, varying in specific movements but all concerned with uprooting authoritarianism in all its political, social and economic permutations.
- Many Eastern and Southern Indian nations were uprooted and forced to remove themselves beyond the Mississippi River.
- According to officials who visited the settlements - everything has been destroyed, uprooted, ripped out, or looted.
- True, Rifkin readily acknowledges that globalization is uprooting cultures, threatening languages, and ruthlessly destroying the domestic economies of developing nations.
- Up to a million people were displaced, their lives uprooted and their communities destroyed.
- Practitioners had to ask: How much should we uproot and eradicate in order to re-create?
- Whole communities and long settled social orders have been suddenly uprooted by externally imposed political economic change.
- Epidemics wiped out villages, uprooted tribes, and undermined resistance to European territorial incursions.
- And any significant transformation of Caribbean reality will have to begin with the uprooting of all the social relationships and structures that resulted from plantation existence.
Synonyms eradicate, get rid of, eliminate, root out, weed out, remove, destroy, put an end to, do away with, wipe out, stamp out, extirpate, abolish, extinguish
2Move (someone) from their home or a familiar location. 使离家迁移他处 my father travelled constantly and uprooted his family several times 父亲经常出游，多次举家迁移。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘These boys were uprooted from their families, from their homes,’ she said.
- As bombing raids attacking Britain's cities increased during World War Two, thousands of children were uprooted from their families and sent to the safety of the countryside.
- As a wife of a traveling shipyard worker, Missy tries to keep a positive attitude about constantly uprooting her family, a feeling many Navy wives can easily relate to.
- It's been 20 years this fall since we were uprooted from Calgary and moved to the City of Bridges.
- ‘On that day, a crime was committed against a people, who were uprooted from their land and whose existence was destroyed and who were forced to flee to all areas of the world,’ he said.
- My family are very settled in the area and at this stage of my career my wife and I are not prepared to uproot the children and take them to a different school.
- As for the indigenous people, a small fraction were better off, but most were uprooted from their traditional lands whose fragile ecosystems had been destroyed.
- It turned out to be a good decision not to uproot the family as the job lasted for only six weeks.
- Despite a flourishing career as a freelance writer and a home in rural New England, he felt the Irish connection so strongly that he uprooted his family to move here.
- The women were forced to constantly uproot their families and move to another part of the country in the hope that they would be able to live in peace.
- But it is not just hunger that has uprooted these desperate people from their homes.
- She even tried to get us to move over there and live with her in her mansion, but my dad didn't want to uproot his family.
- The wedding talk surfaced in early April, when Brad and Angelina uprooted their family to set up camp across the globe in Namibia.
- When I was two, my parents moved uprooted me from tourist-destination city Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, to small bush town Bethel, Alaska.
- To ensure success, Chapman then uprooted his family and moved to the USA for three years to build up the client base and develop the manufacturing facility.
- A hundred thousand people were uprooted from their homes and moved to this city in the middle of nowhere.
- The player, meanwhile, is forced to uproot his family and move to another team because he didn't anticipate that such a situation could happen when he signed the deal in the first place.
- Even if you were offered a job, not many people can afford to uproot their family to move.
- Do they move house or job and therefore uproot children from friends and familiar surroundings?
- This would entail uprooting people and resettling them somewhere else.
Derivativesnoun The proper thing would be to place the tree uprooters on trial, and to require them, rather than the state, to pay compensation to the injured parties. Example sentencesExamples - He was looked upon as an advocate of lawlessness, as the uprooter of the foundations of society; and his wife - that remarkable woman, Mary Wollstonecroft - holding, among other peculiar views, that marriage was a pernicious institution, was considered as an emblem of all that was unwomanly.
- Buddha probably did not see himself as the founder of a new religion but a reformer only did not claim to be an uprooter of the existing social order or economic system; he accepted their basic premises and only attacked the evils that had grown under them.
- Extraction of the tree stump is achieved with this known uprooter by manual rotation of the screw threaded spindle which requires great expenditure of force.
- Should Tower Hamlets Councillors be allowed to act as the social uprooters of the people that make up the borough's ordinary population today?
Rhymesacute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, Ute, volute Definition of uproot in US English: uprootverb [with object]1Pull (something, especially a tree or plant) out of the ground. 连根拔除 the elephant's trunk is powerful enough to uproot trees 大象鼻子有足够力量把树连根拔起。 Example sentencesExamples - Elsewhere in Britain motorways and minor roads were closed as lorries overturned, trees were uprooted and chimney stacks were toppled by 90 mph gusts.
- More than 6,000 trees were uprooted and many electricity poles were knocked down.
- In the latest incident, early this week thugs uprooted a tree which had been planted in 1973 to celebrate friendships formed on an exchange between Shipley and Hamm in Germany, which were later officially twinned.
- Their trunk is employed to pull branches off trees, uproot grass, pluck fruit, and to place food in their mouths.
- Meanwhile, heavy rain, recorded at 59.2 mm by the Met Department, flooded several areas and uprooted trees in various parts of the City.
- It was accompanied by a rapid temperature drop, and a squally wind change strong enough to uproot trees and unroof about 50 houses.
- Instead, the palm trees are uprooted and rotting on the sand, which is hidden by rubble and rubbish.
- Very many trees were uprooted by the combination of high winds and sodden ground.
- The industrialization of agriculture after the Second World War, with its attendant use of chemicals and uprooting of hedgerows, has destroyed the habitat of many familiar plants and animal species.
- Elsewhere in deforested Haiti, wind gusts uprooted a palm tree and flung it into a mud hut, killing one person and injuring three in southern Les Cayes town, the Red Cross said.
- When the skies open up over the desert, watercourses alter, rivers gouge out deep channels and tracks, roads break up, trees are uprooted and our dramatic countryside changes yet again.
- Torrential rain was said to be flooding eastern Jamaica with punishing winds knocking down power lines, uprooting trees and ripping off roofs.
- Powerful gusts uprooted trees, twisted steel towers and knocked down bridges, rendering many roadways impassable.
- It doesn't automatically give us the power to uproot trees and cast them into the sea.
- The storm's winds were strong enough to uproot trees and to knock people off their feet.
- Emergency services were deluged with calls at the weekend as strong winds blew through the county causing structural damage to buildings, uprooting trees and turning over vehicles.
- For the first time in more than 300 years, a tornado touched down in Pittsburgh on June 2, 1998, ripping off roofs, uprooting trees and downing power lines.
- As a result the club has closed off the upstairs until further notice. A poplar tree was also uprooted by the wind, falling across a pavement on Thornham Drive in Astley Bridge.
- As the sun beats down on Africa, a woman in a veld in the Eastern Cape of South Africa is hunched over her task - uprooting a species of flowering plant.
Synonyms pull up, root out, take out, rip out, rip up, tear up by the roots, grub out, grub up - 1.1 Eradicate; destroy.
〈喻〉根除，灭绝 a revolution is necessary to uproot the social order 根本改变现行社会秩序需要革命。 Example sentencesExamples - And any significant transformation of Caribbean reality will have to begin with the uprooting of all the social relationships and structures that resulted from plantation existence.
- City officials argue that officers need more elbow room to photograph, tape and infiltrate political and social organizations to uproot terror networks.
- Many Eastern and Southern Indian nations were uprooted and forced to remove themselves beyond the Mississippi River.
- Civic unrest infiltrated every corner of the globe, varying in specific movements but all concerned with uprooting authoritarianism in all its political, social and economic permutations.
- Up to a million people were displaced, their lives uprooted and their communities destroyed.
- Millions have had their homes destroyed, their lives uprooted, and their futures decimated.
- True, Rifkin readily acknowledges that globalization is uprooting cultures, threatening languages, and ruthlessly destroying the domestic economies of developing nations.
- Consequently, they search for new ways to eradicate disparities in income, seeking additional means of uprooting poverty.
- Whole communities and long settled social orders have been suddenly uprooted by externally imposed political economic change.
- Epidemics wiped out villages, uprooted tribes, and undermined resistance to European territorial incursions.
- Practitioners had to ask: How much should we uproot and eradicate in order to re-create?
- Instead, I recommend you join the global struggle to uproot this vile system.
- According to officials who visited the settlements - everything has been destroyed, uprooted, ripped out, or looted.
Synonyms eradicate, get rid of, eliminate, root out, weed out, remove, destroy, put an end to, do away with, wipe out, stamp out, extirpate, abolish, extinguish
2Move (someone) from their home or a familiar location. 使离家迁移他处 my father traveled constantly and uprooted his family several times 父亲经常出游，多次举家迁移。 Example sentencesExamples - She even tried to get us to move over there and live with her in her mansion, but my dad didn't want to uproot his family.
- Do they move house or job and therefore uproot children from friends and familiar surroundings?
- As bombing raids attacking Britain's cities increased during World War Two, thousands of children were uprooted from their families and sent to the safety of the countryside.
- To ensure success, Chapman then uprooted his family and moved to the USA for three years to build up the client base and develop the manufacturing facility.
- As a wife of a traveling shipyard worker, Missy tries to keep a positive attitude about constantly uprooting her family, a feeling many Navy wives can easily relate to.
- My family are very settled in the area and at this stage of my career my wife and I are not prepared to uproot the children and take them to a different school.
- The wedding talk surfaced in early April, when Brad and Angelina uprooted their family to set up camp across the globe in Namibia.
- As for the indigenous people, a small fraction were better off, but most were uprooted from their traditional lands whose fragile ecosystems had been destroyed.
- It turned out to be a good decision not to uproot the family as the job lasted for only six weeks.
- When I was two, my parents moved uprooted me from tourist-destination city Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, to small bush town Bethel, Alaska.
- ‘On that day, a crime was committed against a people, who were uprooted from their land and whose existence was destroyed and who were forced to flee to all areas of the world,’ he said.
- But it is not just hunger that has uprooted these desperate people from their homes.
- The player, meanwhile, is forced to uproot his family and move to another team because he didn't anticipate that such a situation could happen when he signed the deal in the first place.
- The women were forced to constantly uproot their families and move to another part of the country in the hope that they would be able to live in peace.
- Despite a flourishing career as a freelance writer and a home in rural New England, he felt the Irish connection so strongly that he uprooted his family to move here.
- ‘These boys were uprooted from their families, from their homes,’ she said.
- It's been 20 years this fall since we were uprooted from Calgary and moved to the City of Bridges.
- A hundred thousand people were uprooted from their homes and moved to this city in the middle of nowhere.
- This would entail uprooting people and resettling them somewhere else.
- Even if you were offered a job, not many people can afford to uproot their family to move.
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