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Nearly a century later, as our team rode bicycles across a different continent, that history—and the way it had affected and uprooted generations of my family—made me wary of Ersin.

A breathable lining keeps things comfortable, even as you trek through mud or rain or uprooted gardens.

The hopelessness of the pattern was now clear, and the pandemic had already uprooted so many Americans.

Now Hong Kong is taking a sharply repressive turn under a sweeping new national security law imposed on June 30, forcing many to once again think about uprooting themselves—this time perhaps forever.

From Quartz

In January, 1989, my 26-year-old father uprooted his life to move to the other side of the world.

Not everyone has the resources to uproot themselves and move to a "right to die" state, as Brittany and her family have done.

On the bucket of a bulldozer that had been previously used to uproot the trees in Gezi Park it says, “ I am Free!”

There was no real reason to leave Austria, Freud believed, so why uproot the entire family?

It would be enormously disruptive, and unpopular, to uproot them over night.

Baldacci said that despite feeling "very compelled" to run, he couldn't uproot his family.

He boasted he would uproot single-handed, in one hour, all the trees in the Royal pleasaunce.

They will pull down with their trunks battlements, and uproot trees, standing erect upon their hind feet.

It was a cherished aim of the Club to uproot foolish superstitions, hence Friday.

This should not discourage the grower or cause him to uproot his trees.

Go over the border plants and uproot all grass that has secured a foothold there.

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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to uproot, such as: annihilate, demolish, displace, eradicate, exterminate, and overthrow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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