OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 15246

uproot

/ˌʌpˈɹuːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desarraigar • descepar • desenraizar • desraizar • extirpar
To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
Mark me! the Lord's hand is stretched out, and will not be withdrawn until his nest be turned up, even as the plough uprooteth and scattereth the nest of the field-mouse and the bl…
[S]he and Mr. Joseph Tuggs, and Miss Charlotta Tuggs, and Mr. Cymon Tuggs, with their eight feet in a corresponding number of yellow shoes, seated themselves on four rush-bottomed…
desarraigar
To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
The Anglification of Scotland has been proceeding apace to the damage of its education, its music, its literature, its genius, and the generation that is growing up under this infl…
[H]ave ye a Sultan who ruleth over you and is tyrannical in his rule and under whose hand you are; one who, if any of you commit an offence, taketh his goods and ruineth him and wh…