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were uprooted
verb
To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate.
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"Our lives were uprooted".
Lives were uprooted in the process.
Some 12 million people were uprooted.
Under Nazi rule they were uprooted and dispossessed.
Trees were uprooted, beaches routed and windows blown out.
He lost track of the times his toenails were uprooted.
The diseased vines were uprooted and burned and new ones planted, at enormous cost.
Almost half of the plants seized in California were uprooted from national forests.
Flowers were uprooted along the route from the airport and strewn on the road.
On the Great Hill, nearly a dozen once-stately American elms were uprooted or shattered.
In addition, many people were uprooted from their homes in the conflict that followed Yugoslavia's collapse.
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