uprooting

English

Verb

uprooting

1. present participle and gerund of uproot

Noun

uprooting (plural uprootings)

1. A tearing up.
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     This was reproduced by the only sound that broke their supreme embrace when, a month later, the "arrangement," as her periodical uprootings were called, played the part of the horrible forceps.

   • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence:

     […] the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart […]