Uprooting

Synonyms for "uprooting" (61 found)

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Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

17 entries
agricultural operationagricultural processbiological processchangecultivation techniquecultural changedisplacementextractiongeographic relocationhorticultural practicehuman displacementmigrationphysical removalremovalsocial disruptionsocial transformation

Showing 16 of 17 words.

More specific

23 entries
chemical uprootingcommunity displacementcrop transplantationcrop uprootingcultural reshapingcultural ruptureethnic displacementfamily relocationforced uprootingideological purgeimmigrant displacementinstitutional overhaulmass resettlementmass uprootingmechanical uprootingrefugee relocation

Showing 16 of 23 words.

Collocations

16 entries
crop uprootingcultural uprootingecological disturbanceecological uprootingforced uprootinghabitat disruptionmass uprootingmechanical uprootingroot extractionroot removalsoil disruptiontree removaluproot plantsuproot treesuprooting processvegetation removal

Inflections

5 entries
more uprootingmost uprootinguprooteduprootingsuproots

Derivations

6 entries
uprootuprootableuprooteduprooteruprooting actionuprooting process

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Weather forecasters described the storms as "large and extremely dangerous." The twisters picked up large trucks and slammed them to the ground. They also tore through residential neighborhoods, demolishing homes, smashing cars, and uprooting trees.

Source: tatoeba (12111801)

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.

Source: wiktionary

[…] the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart […]

Source: wiktionary

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