uprooting

English

Verb

uprooting

  1. present participle of uproot

Noun

uprooting (plural uprootings)

  1. A tearing up.
    • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
      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.
    • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
      […] the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart […]
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