uproots

verb

present tense third-person singular of uproot
as in pulls
to draw out by force or with effort uprooted the old bridge's pilings upon the completion of its replacement

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Recent Examples of uproots Both in the past and in the present, Euphoria uproots Ali from the comfortable four walls of the diner. — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026 And so, in a twist that uproots the entire season, front-runner Jane Don’t gets sent home with only like one episode to go before the finale. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2026 To be closer to her, their father uproots the family from the city to the countryside. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026 The six-part thriller follows John (Lincoln) who uproots his family and moves from London to the small Scottish village of Coldwater, following a violent incident at a playground. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026 Helm topples trees, uproots crops, overturns feed stacks, steals loose blankets. — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uproots
  1. pulls
  2. pries
  3. plucks
  4. extracts
Verb
  • Abercrombie keeps moving away from its old identity while Hollister pulls recognizable pieces of its past back onto the racks.
    — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
  • As Béatrice’s amateur detective work pulls her in deeper, the strands begin to suggest a conspiracy, one marked by mysterious disappearances and the clandestine sway of the Vatican.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulls
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  • By fields of cotton and soybeans where his bees forage and pollinate, Foster Hensel pries open the lid of one of his beehives, setting off a rising hum from inside.
    — Drew Hawkins, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Remove the 11 Philips-head screws on the bottom of the laptop, and its bottom pries up with a bit of pressure.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of pries
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  • Trump sometimes plucks memes from a sprawling ecosystem of online conservative supporters, and sometimes his government staff produces them as part of their official messaging.
    — Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • His torso and thighs grow eye-poppingly muscular beneath their skimpy fur-and-leather togs—a development that does not go unnoticed by a warrior named Red Hair, who plucks the young hunk from his post and tosses him into the prime time of the gladiator pit.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of plucks
Verb
  • Rio Tinto in Canada extracts high-purity scandium oxide from titanium dioxide waste streams produced from its Lac Tio mine operations in Quebec.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • That web lasted about a decade before it was dismantled, piece by piece, in favor of one that extracts profits from similar interactions.
    — Betsy Blondin, Longreads, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of extracts

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“Uproots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uproots. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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