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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
Closest matches include abolition, annihilation, annulment, arousing, choking.
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