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uprooting en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A tearing up.
    • This was reproduced by the only sound that broke their supreme embrace when, a month later, the "arrangement," as her periodical uprootings were called, played the part of the horrible forceps. 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
    • […] the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart […] 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence:

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uprooting en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of uproot
    form of uproot