0 present 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.
This study highlights the importance of poor drainage which has two important consequences favouring uprooting.
The general effect of poor drainage on mode of death was to increase uprooting but decrease snapping proportions.
Windstorms that cause tree uprooting on particularly unsteady soils as well as periodic strong runoffs contribute to create or maintain a local hummock-hollow topography.
Farmers start with seedlings 50-60 days old, planting them densely and often several days after uprooting from seedbeds.
The mass uprooting of the population further fostered discontent and political activism among them, leading the authorities to adopt an even more repressive policy.
Snapping and uprooting of trees: structural determinants and ecological characteristics.
Uprooting and snapping of trees: structural determinants and ecological consequences.
Most gaps were formed by the fall of trees, due either to trunk-snapping (53 individuals) or to uprooting (35 individuals).
