UPROOTED Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

uprooted

verb

past tense of uproot

as in pulled

to draw out by force or with effort uprooted the old bridge's pilings upon the completion of its replacement

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Recent Examples of uprooted One factor in the monarch decline is that milkweed is often uprooted as a weed, resulting in the destruction of the butterfly habitat. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026 Clemency after the 1948 war During the Arab-Israeli war between 1947 and 1949, some 750,000 Palestinians were uprooted from their homes. — Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026 Nearby, the winds uprooted trees and flipped a truck on its side. — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2026 In 2019, when the husband’s work uprooted the family to Seattle, the pair kept the Eichler and rented it out, never quite thinking of the move as permanent. — Kristen Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026 Among those who had been displaced, 70 percent had been uprooted three or more times. — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026 Security turned out to be the exception and the narrative as a whole has mostly been uprooted. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026 Many people in northern Ethiopia, including the neighboring regions of Amhara and Afar, were uprooted from their homes and tens of thousands of were believed to have been killed. — ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026 Nantz said the town’s contractors have started stump removal for the scores of trees that were uprooted. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

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Michael Whatley‘s campaign against Democrat Roy Cooper on Tuesday evening, even as Republican PACs have quietly pulled funding from the race.

— Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2026
Wilson is part of the reason three mothers pulled their children this year from a San Diego-area Christian school, which pursued an affiliation with ACCS.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

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Raw inputs are extracted from the periphery, refined and assembled in the metropole, and sold back at a markup.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
In that moment, walking through room after room of marble and silk and silver, all of it extracted from illiterate workers in the fields and fishing boats on the horizon, the reasons for the Protestant Reformation became fully clear to me.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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