uproot
pronunciation
How to pronounce uproot in British English:
UK [ˌʌpˈru:t]
How to pronounce uproot in American English:
US [ʌpˈrut, -ˈrʊt]
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- Verb:
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- pull up by or as if by the roots
Word Origin
- uproot (v.)
- 1590s (implied in uprooted), in the figurative sense, from up (adv.) + root (v.). The literal sense is first recorded 1690s. Related: Uprooted; uprooting.
Antonym
Example
- 1. The law was supposed to uproot the country 's colonial legacy of concentrated landownership .
- 2. India 's evil caste system remains entrenched in spite of government efforts to uproot it , a racist system that condemns darker skinned indians to a life of penury and servitude .
- 3. But others condemn the deals as neocolonial land grabs that destroy villages , uproot tens of thousands of farmers and create a volatile mass of landless poor .
- 4. It also includes the controversial belo monte amazonian dam , which will be the world 's third-largest when it 's completed but promises to flood more than 160 square miles of forest and uproot tens of thousands of indigenous people .
- 5. Their primary goal is to uproot thailand 's western-style democracy , which they contend that cash-rich populists such as mr. thaksin can easily manipulate , and replace it with a system where bureaucrats and other civic groups have a greater say in selecting parliament .