Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - uproot
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Uproot
uproot
(uproots, uprooting, uprooted) 1. If you uproot yourself or if you are uprooted, you leave, or are made to leave, a place where you have lived for a long time. ...the trauma of uprooting themselves from their homes... He had no wish to uproot Dena from her present home. ...refugees who were uprooted during Ethiopia’s civil war. VERB: V pron-refl, V n, be V-ed 2. If someone uproots a tree or plant, or if the wind uproots it, it is pulled out of the ground. ...fallen trees which have been uprooted by the storm. ...uprooted trees. VERB: V n, V-ed
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1.
transitive verb Date: circa 1620 1. to remove as if by pulling up 2. to pull up by the roots 3. to displace from a country or traditional habitat Synonyms: see exterminate • ~edness noun • ~er noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 pull (a plant etc.) up from the ground. 2 displace (a person) from an accustomed location. 3 eradicate, destroy. Derivatives uprooter n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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4.
1. корчевать, вырывать с корнем the wind uprooted some trees —- ветер вырвал с корнем несколько деревьев 2. насильно выселять с места жительства to uproot smb. from his home —- выгнать кого-л. из дому, заставить кого-л. покинуть родные места 3. менять место жительства и образ жизни 4. искоренять to uproot customs —- искорянять обычаи 5. выкапывать, рыть рылом (о свинье) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to pull a plant and its roots out of the ground 2 to make someone leave their home for a new place, especially when this is difficult or upsetting (My father was in the army, so every two years we were uprooted and moved again.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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