as in pulling
to draw out by force or with effort
uprooted the old bridge's pilings upon the completion of its replacement
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The hurricane swept through Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee uprooting homes, collapsing critical infrastructure, and knocking out power and phone service.
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Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
Thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds tore through the city, reducing businesses and other structures to piles of debris, uprooting trees and shattering glass from downtown skyscrapers.
—Juan A. Lozano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2024
Initially, with Israel focused on uprooting Hamas in Gaza, fighting along its northern border with Lebanon was limited to tit-for-tat strikes.
—Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
The emotions and uprooting ignited the need to write at a feverish pace, filling the pages of notebooks with poems to let those feelings out.
—Roxsy Lin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
Thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds tore through the city, reducing businesses and other structures to piles of debris, uprooting trees and shattering glass from downtown skyscrapers.
—Juan A. Lozano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2024
Initially, with Israel focused on uprooting Hamas in Gaza, fighting along its northern border with Lebanon was limited to tit-for-tat strikes.
—Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
The emotions and uprooting ignited the need to write at a feverish pace, filling the pages of notebooks with poems to let those feelings out.
—Roxsy Lin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Uprooting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uprooting. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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