Uprooting [verb]
Definition of Uprooting:
destroy; rip out of a place
Synonyms of Uprooting:
● Wipe out
● Displace
● Demolish
● Overturn
● Abate
● Move
● Remove
● Abolish
● Exile
● Extract
● Excavate
● Pull up
● Weed
● Blot out
● Dig up
● Root out
● Tear up
● Weed out
Opposite/Antonyms of Uprooting:
Sentence/Example of Uprooting:
What an uprooting of all the sacred ties of home and family!
There was another storm within that was uprooting every emotion of his soul.
As he went about gathering up his books he felt as if he were uprooting things.
Would her writing ever amount to enough to vindicate the uprooting of her past?
I suppose there is little chance of uprooting her convictions.
When he awoke at last his rigor in uprooting them was intemperate and ineffectual.
The husband should be prepared for the effect of this uprooting on his young wife.
The uprooting of this last belief made her heart bleed with anguish.
"Sit there then," said the fairies, and passed on, tickling but not uprooting the weeds in their rows.
It's like uprooting a tree that's growed all its life in one spot.