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uprooted

adjective as in displaced

Weak match

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He also uprooted more than 500,000 people and destroyed entire neighborhoods to build them all.

Journalists are prevented from entering the region; non-government organizations have been uprooted on short notice.

Israel recently advanced legislation calling for tens of thousands of Bedouin citizens to be uprooted and dispossessed.

The post-industrial, global economy has upended careers and uprooted whole communities.

Jamaat and its allies have attacked police and uprooted rail lines.

During the contest the dragons called up a great wind which uprooted the tree.

Above the altar before which the priest knelt was an immense carving in imitation of an uprooted tree.

During this one war 49 bombs were tossed and planted and 49 gambling establishments were blasted, uprooted and blown into the air.

This finished him, but his death struggles lasted twenty minutes, during which the tree was nearly uprooted.

Each garden concealed behind its palings the "flower" of Kabyle chivalry, only to be uprooted by the bayonet.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to uprooted, such as: deranged, luxated, removed, and ectopic.

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

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