Uproot

Definition: Uproot

Uproot

Verb

1. Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people".

2. Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted".

3. Pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden".

Date "uproot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Uproot

Synonyms: deracinate (v), displace (v), eradicate (v), exterminate (v), extirpate (v), root out (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Extraction	Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Uproot

English words defined with "uproot": Disroot ♦ Unroot. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Corporate Dandelions: How the Weed of Bureaucracy Is Choking American Companies-And What You Can Do to Uproot It (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Uproot" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Uproot" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	90.91%	50	48,117
Lexical Verb (base form)	7.27%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	1.82%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	55	N/A

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Language		Translations for "uproot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		asgjësoj (annihilate, decimate, destroy, devour, disannul, eliminate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fast, finish, finish off, frustrate, liquidate, overturn, rub out, scathe, shake down, slate, smite, stultify, trample down, unbuild, undo, unmake), çrrënjos (deracinate, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate). (various references)

Arabic		‏إستئصل, ‏إجتث (eradicate, root, winkle out). (various references)

Bulgarian		откъсвам (break away, break off, dissociate, island, pick off, prescind, pull, pull off, rend, rip off, tear away, tear off, tear out, tweak, win away), изтръгвам (elicit, extort, get, milk, pull out, rip out, root from, snatch, tear out, wrench, wrest, yank), изкоренявам (deracinate, do away with, eradicate, exscind, exterminate, extirpate, pluck off, pluck up, root out, root up, unroot, weed out). (various references)

Chinese		连� ��", �"� � . (various references)

Czech		vyvrátit z kořene, vykořenit (eradicate, extirpate, root, root up, unroot). (various references)

Farsi		ازریشه کندن (Supplant), ازبن دراوردن , ریشه کن کردن (Root), برکندن . (various references)

Finnish		kiskoa juurineen (pull up by the roots). (various references)

French		déraciner, déplanter. (various references)

German		entwurzeln (disroot, eradicate). (various references)

Greek		ξεριζώνω (dig up, eradicate, extirpate, tear up, weed out). (various references)

Hebrew		לתלוש (pluck, tear, tear off, tear out), לשרש (extirpate, weed, weed out), לעקור (eradicate, extirpate, pluck, pull out, pull up, yank), ל� תק (break, cut off, detach, disconnect, disengage, divorce, isolate, sever, sunder, uncouple), ל� סוח (eradicate, pull down, tear away). (various references)

Hungarian		kiirt (to deracinate, to eradicate, to exterminate, to extinguish, to grub, to grub up, to kill off, to obliterate, to pull up), gyökerestõl kitép (unroot). (various references)

Indonesian		membedol. (various references)

Italian		sradicare (eradicate, pull up, root out, root up, stub), estirpare (cutout, exterminate, extirpate, root out, stub). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� �引き (redeem). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ねびき (discount, price reduction, redeem). (various references)

Pig Latin		ootupray

Portuguese		extirpar (enucleate, eradicate, excise, extirpate, weed), desenraizar (unroot), arrancar pela raiz (deracinate, root up, rout, unroot). (various references)

Romanian		stârpi (abolish, destroy, eradicate, root, weed out), smulge (carry away, draw out, elicit, extirpate, extort, pick off, pull, pull up, rend away, rend off, Rive, snatch, squeeze, tear out, worm out of, wrest, wring, yank), rupe (break, break off, break smth. in pieces, cull, declare off, dismember, disrupt, gather, lacerate, open, pull, pull apart, rend, rift, rip, scatter, separate, sever, snap, splinter, split, stop, tear), dezrãdãcina (deracinate, disroot, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, stub up), desfiinţa (abolish, abrogate, annul, destroy, disband, disestablish, dissolve, level away, liquidate, neutralize, repeal, suppress, undo). (various references)

Russian		вырывать с корнем (deracinate, disroot, eradicate, root out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		iskoreniti (deracinate, destroy, do away with, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root, root out, root up, unroot). (various references)

Spanish		desarraigar (deracinate, dig up, disroot, grub up, stub up, stubbed, stubbing, tear up). (various references)

Swedish		rycka upp med rötterna, göra rotlös. (various references)

Turkish		uzaklaştırmak (can, cast out, deport, estrange, remove, rout out, rout up, send away, suspend), kökünden sökmek (disroot, eradicate, extirpate, root away, root out, root up, stub, stub up, tear up), kökünü kazımak (extirpate, kill off, root away, root out, root up). (various references)

Ukrainian		корчювати. (various references)

Welsh		diwreiddio (eradicate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	bur. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	convulsa, convulsam. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "uproot": uprootal, uprootals, uprooted, uprootedness, uprootednesses, uprooter, uprooters, uprooting, uproots. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Uproot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: approof, Ugromov. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "uproot" (pronounced upruw"t)
3	-r uw" t	Brut, brute, fruit, recruit, reroute, root.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "o-o-p-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: troop.
	-2 letters: poor, port, pour, pout, root, roto, roup, rout, toro, tour, trop.
	-3 letters: oot, opt, ort, our, out, pot, pro, pur, put, rot, rut, too, top, tor, tup, upo.
	-4 letters: op, or, to, up, ut.
	Words containing the letters "o-o-p-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: dropout, outcrop, outdrop, outport, outpour, uproots.
	+2 letters: dropouts, hornpout, outcrops, outdrops, outgroup, outports, outpours, outpower, pronotum, pulmotor, uprootal, uprooted, uprooter.
	+3 letters: autotroph, auxotroph, coproduct, corruptor, hornpouts, opportune, outgroups, outpoured, outpowers, politburo, potpourri, pourpoint, pulmotors, puttyroot, rustproof, stuporous, turboprop, uprootals, uprooters, uprooting.
	+4 letters: anatropous, autotrophs, autotrophy, auxotrophs, auxotrophy, colporteur, coproducts, copulatory, corruption, corruptors, countertop, nonsupport, outcropped, outdropped, outperform, outpouring, outpowered, outproduce, outpromise, photomural, politburos, portentous, postulator, potpourris, pourpoints, procurator, production, prolocutor, propitious, propositus, prosciutto, prosecutor, prostomium, protohuman, protrusion, puttyroots, rustproofs, tropopause, turboprops.
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