Definition of "uprooter" [uprooter]

• One who, or that which, uproots. (noun)

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• "This so enraged the King that, yielding to the suggestions of the wicked Almidor, he agreed to send him, with treacherous intent, to the court of Egypt, as bearer of a sealed letter, in which document he entreated King Ptolemy to take an early opportunity of destroying one who was a despiser and uprooter of their ancient belief."
• "It actually reminds me of those uprooter droids in Star Wars, in a half lot category of way."
• "-- or from the hideous devilfish of the Gulf, -- gigantic, flat-bodied, black, with immense side-fins ever outspread like the pinions of a bat, -- the terror of luggermen, the uprooter of anchors?"