uproot

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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 the Lord's hand is stretched out, and will not be withdrawn until his nest be turned up, even as the plough uprooteth and scattereth the nest of the field-mouse and the blind mole; […]”

2. fiil To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.

   “[B]ravely bearing on, thy will / Is destined an eternal war to wage / With tyranny and falshood, and uproot / The germs of misery from the human heart.”

3. fiil To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.

   “[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 who, whenas he will, turneth you out of house and home and uprooteth you, stock and branch?”

4. fiil Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
5. isim The act of uprooting something.

   “With the uproot of the Chinese commercial system in the 1890s such a crisis was bound to surface.”

6. fiil Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.