0 past simple and past participle of uproot
2 to remove a person from their home or usual environment:
The war has uprooted nearly two thirds of the country's population.
Almost all of the individuals that sprouted were snapped off trees, although sprouts were recorded eventually for partially uprooted trees.
When stands were mature, plant samples from an area of 0.5 m2 were uprooted for yield component and quality analysis.
Liberian ex-combatants are generally seen as uprooted urban youths with a history of unemployment, underemployment and idleness.
Uprooted trees, their distribution and influence in the primeval forest biotope.
The number of trees that had uprooted, snapped or died standing was then calculated for each subplot.
The buildings in this area were demolished and several hundred families were uprooted as a consequence.
The proportion of uprooted trees in the valleys was three times as high as that on the ridges.
The beans were uprooted and burnt outside the experiment.
