Definition of "uprooting" []

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

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• "The unnamed first-person narrator of the eight linked stories in Love and Obstacles survives a similar uprooting from the Balkans to the Midwest."
• "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."
• "Well I hope she keeps her seat available if she don't succeed in uprooting this clone of BUSHS 'from the governor's seat."