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uproot
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uproot someone from
some place Fig. to cause someone to move from a well-established home or setting. You should not uproot people from the land in which they were born. I just couldn't uproot myself from my home.

uproot something from some place

to take up a plant or tree, roots and all. Wally uprooted the bush from the backyard and replanted it on the other side of the house. Who uprooted a rosebush from my garden?
See also: place, some


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Jennings (1963:162) further identifies the grotesque as a mode of existence, comprising all the disorientation and uprootedness of the time, while Kayser (1981:185) explains that, .
When these kinds of self-consolation fail, the speaker invokes spirits and ghosts to alleviate the pang of uprootedness.
Guerra and Rosi 117-18) And because Nicola continues to belittle the ethical value of a sociopolitical arrangement that has spawned wealth and corruption among certain social groups, while sowing suffering and uprootedness among others (not least, it goes without saying, Nicola's own), Raffaele must pitch a definitive plea in favor of the however faulty Constitution he has pledged to defend.
 
 
 
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