uproot

Other forms of uproot

past tense

uprooted·

present participle

uprooting·

third person

uproots·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about uproot

What does uproot mean?

uproot means "move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uproot?

uproot has 2 syllables: u-proot. The stress falls on "proot". In IPA it is /əˈpɹut/.

What is another word for uproot?

Close synonyms include deracinate, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is uproot a common word?

uproot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.