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▪ I. ˈuproot, n.
[f. next.]
An uprooted tree.
1891E. Roper By Track & Trail iii. 33 Stumps and logs and fallen trees, uproots and old dead weeds.
▪ II. upˈroot, v.1
[up- 4 + root v.1: cf. uprooted pa. pple.]
trans. To tear up by the roots; to remove from a fixed position.
1695Congreve Taking of Namur viii, Uprooting Hills..To form the High and Dreadful Scale. 1771Beattie Minstrel i. xxiv, The river..Down the vale thunders, and..Uproots the grove. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 475 Storms and hurricanes sometimes happen, which..uproot trees. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Tales iv, Mr. Cymon..uprooted the chairs, and removed them further back. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxv. 185 We were powerfully shaken, but had no fear of being uprooted. 1877Huxley Physiogr. 171 The stalks are not uprooted and carried across the field.
b. fig. To remove as by tearing up; to eradicate, exterminate, destroy.
a1620J. Dyke Worthy Commun. (1640) 193 Before wee can be rooted in Christ, we must be unrooted and uprooted in regard of our natural condition. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes iii. xxiv. 52 Tear forth, uprooted from the youthful Breast, The Seeds of each deprav'd Desire. 1813Shelley Q. Mab ix. 191 [To] uproot The germs of misery from the human heart. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. viii. II. 173 That he acted on any settled scheme of uprooting the nationality, the laws, or the language of England is an exploded fable.
Hence upˈrootal; upˈrooter; upˈrooting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1861Macm. Mag. V. 22 He would have shrieked like a mandrake at *uprootal. 1890Clark Russell Shipmate Louise II. 285 The sudden uprootal and crash of their one mast and sail.
1828Campbell On Battle of Navarino 10 No! your lofty emprise was to fetter and foil The *uprooter of Greece's domain! 1882Blackw. Mag. CXXXII. 102/2 War..—that remorseless and violent uprooter of ordinary life.
1775Ash s.v., *Uprooting. 1847J. C. Mangan Poems (1903) 223 But the end of all is Sadness,..Spoliation and Uprooting! 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. x. 95 The uprooting of the ancient gravestones in..our city burial-grounds.
1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. clxxiii, The *uprooting wind which tears The oak from his foundation. 1880Meredith Tragic Com. (1881) 265 Should there come no preternatural uprooting tempest.
Add:2. intr. for refl. To uproot oneself, esp. to move away and thereby sever oneself from one's origins or accustomed environment.
a1961‘N. Shute’ in Webster s.v., He's nearly 60, and that's awfully old to uproot and leave everything and everyone you know. 1970M. Sarton Jrnl. 30 Oct. (1973) 49 When the time comes, I don't want to uproot, however much I may complain about the loneliness here. 1975Times 10 Apr. 16/4 It is too easy simply to say that these people should uproot and follow the jobs. 1989Guardian 12 Aug. 18/7, I came very close to accepting but decided my lifestyle is such that I could not uproot and leave Australia at this stage. 1991Harper's Mag. Jan. 47/2, I spoke with two New Yorkers who were leaving forever, uprooting in early middle age, a lesbian couple fleeing the megalopolis to find a new home.
▪ III. upˈroot, v.2
[up- 4 + root v.2]
trans. To grub up.
1726Pope Odyssey xviii. 36 Those teeth.., Like some vile swine's, that..Uproots the bearded corn. 1889A. R. Wallace Darwinism 16 Some [herbivorous mammals] uproot and devour the buried tubers. |
