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to unroot

8.2

Make people leave their home and feel lost

verb
/ʌnˈruːt/

: desarraigar

The war caused families to unroot from their homes and seek refuge in neighboring countries.

Examples

After the flood, many residents were unrooted from their communities and left searching for a new place to live.
When the school was demolished, the students felt unrooted and struggled to adjust to their new environment.
Yes, I know it seems daunting, but this is the influence of patriarchy, and it is so deeply ingrained in our society that it is going to take a very long time to unroot it so that women will finally achieve the goal at the heart of feminism.

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Synonyms

to kick out

vsto unroot

512 3.0

Force someone to leave a place or group

often highlights lasting social exclusion and personal upheaval

to expel

vsto unroot

194 5.0

Force someone to leave a place, such as a school or country, often by official order

is broader, stressing loss of home and social belonging

to displace

vsto unroot

140 5.5

To make a person leave their usual place or job

focuses more on social removal and long-term loss of home

to evict

vsto unroot

77 4.6

To make someone leave a house or land by court order

is broader and includes emotional displacement beyond property loss

to drive out

vsto unroot

70 3.8

Force someone or something to leave a place

stresses social and emotional harm rather than mere physical push

to force out

vsto unroot

46 4.4

To make someone leave a job by pressure or threats

usually implies deeper social removal and loss of belonging

to exile

vsto unroot

46 5.6

To force someone to leave their country, often for political reasons

covers forced removal from home or familiar community more generally

to uproot

vsto unroot

38 4.4

To pull a plant out of the ground or force people to leave home

is used for forcible removal that causes emotional and social displacement

to move out

vsto unroot

36 2.8

To make someone or something leave a place

focuses on forced removal that damages social and emotional ties

to cast out

vsto unroot

31 6.2

Force someone to leave a group or place because others reject them

focuses on long-term social isolation and loss of community ties

to dislodge

vsto unroot

15 6.1

To force something or someone out of a place where they are stuck

applies to people leaving homes with social and emotional consequences

to rout out

vsto unroot

1 7.1

To force someone or something out of a place by searching

is more about emotional displacement and leaving home behind

to turf out

vsto unroot

1 8.2

Force someone to leave a place or job

is used when removal causes social displacement and shame

Antonyms

to settle

463 2.5

To live in a place, often for a long time

to root

21 5.1

To settle and start living in one place

How Rooted

to exile

46 5.6

to unroot

8.2

to evict

77 4.6

to displace

140 5.5

to relocate

147 3.7

move

259 1.1

Surface Forms

unroot infinitive

unrooted past

unrooted past participle

unrooting present participle

unroots third person singular

Morphology

unroot = root (semi-transparent) = un + root

The prefix 'un-' indicates reversal, but the metaphorical sense of 'displacement' is not entirely transparent.

Etymology

Unroot comes from un- ('remove') and root ('the part of a plant that holds it in the ground'), so to unroot people means to pull them away from their home or community, leaving them feeling lost like a tree pulled from the soil.