Usually means: Removing something from its origin.
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  1. uprooting: Merriam-Webster
  2. uprooting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. uprooting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Uprooting, uprooting: Wordnik
  5. uprooting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. uprooting: Wiktionary
  7. uprooting: Dictionary.com
  8. uprooting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Uprooting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. uprooting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uprooting: Legal dictionary

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  1. uprooting: Idioms

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▸ noun:  A tearing up.

Similar:
eradicate, extirpate, deracinate, root out, exterminate, pull up, displace, averruncation, upending, overthrowal, more...

Opposite:
planting, establishing, rooting, settling, anchoring

Types:
transplant, translocation, diaspora, more...

Adjectives:
complete, violent, sudden, such, social, cultural, total, wholesale, constant, massive, physical

Colors:
    burnt sienna,     olive green,     earth brown,     rust,     charcoal, more...

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Similar:
eradicate, extirpate, deracinate, root out, exterminate, pull up, displace, averruncation, upending, overthrowal, more...

Opposite:
planting, establishing, rooting, settling, anchoring

Types:
transplant, translocation, diaspora, more...

Adjectives:
complete, violent, sudden, such, social, cultural, total, wholesale, constant, massive, physical

Colors:
    burnt sienna,     olive green,     earth brown,     rust,     charcoal, more...



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