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Definition: UNROOT |
UNROOTIntransitive verb1. To be torn up by the roots. Transitive verb1. To tear up by the roots; to eradicate; to uproot. |
Date "UNROOT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Extraction | Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unroot | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "UNROOT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | изкоренявам (deracinate, do away with, eradicate, exscind, exterminate, extirpate, pluck off, pluck up, root out, root up, uproot, weed out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vykořenit (eradicate, extirpate, root, root up, uproot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rykke op med rode (to disroot, to root out, to unroot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ontwortelen (eradicate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | raivata (clear, pioneer), kiskoa juurineen irti (to disroot, to root out, to unroot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déraciner (to unroot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wurzeln ausreißen (to disroot, to root out, to unroot), entwurzeln (disroot, eradicate, uproot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyökerestõl kitép (uproot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | svellere (to disroot, to root out, to unroot), sradicare (eradicate, pull up, root out, root up, stub, uproot), estirpare (cutout, exterminate, extirpate, root out, stub, uproot), espellere (discharge, eject, evict, excrete, expel, oust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ootunray desenraizar (uproot), arrancar pela raiz (deracinate, root up, rout, uproot). (various references) выкорчевывать. (various references) iskoreniti (deracinate, destroy, do away with, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root, root out, root up, uproot). (various references) desraizar (to disroot, to root out, to unroot), desenraizar (to disroot, to root out, to unroot), desarraigar (deracinate, dig up, disroot, grub up, stub up, stubbed, stubbing, tear up, uproot). (various references) dra upp med rot (to disroot, to root out, to unroot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UNROOT": unrooted, unrooting, unroots. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: onto, root, roto, rout, runt, toon, torn, toro, tour, turn, unto. | |
-3 letters: noo, nor, not, nut, oot, ort, our, out, rot, run, rut, ton, too, tor, tun, urn. | |
-4 letters: no, nu, on, or, to, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: contour, cornuto, crouton, orotund, outworn, unroots. | |
+2 letters: brownout, contours, cornutos, couranto, croutons, hornpout, notturno, outfrown, outgrown, outscorn, outsnore, outsworn, pronotum, southron, unforgot, unrooted. | |
+3 letters: brownouts, conductor, consultor, contoured, courantos, downcourt, groundout, hornpouts, monstrous, nonauthor, notorious, obtrusion, opportune, outfrowns, outrowing, outscorns, outsnored, outsnores, outthrown, overcount, pourpoint, recontour, southrons, tournedos, underfoot, undertook, unrooting, uprooting. | |
+4 letters: anatropous, brontosaur, conductors, consortium, consultors, contouring, corruption, counterion, countertop, courantoes, frontcourt, groundouts, housefront, inoculator, monestrous, moonstruck, morulation, motoneuron, neurotoxic, neurotoxin, nonauthors, noncountry, nonroutine, nonsupport, northbound, obtrusions, obturation, orotundity, outcrowing, outfrowned, outgrowing, outpouring, outrebound, outroaring, outrocking, outrolling, outrooting, outscoring, outscorned, outsnoring, outsoaring, outworking, overcounts, portentous, pourpoints, production, protohuman, protrusion, recontours, resolution, revolution, roundabout, serotinous, stormbound, tourbillon, treasonous, undershoot, understood, undoctored, unorthodox. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 4E 52 4F 4F 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. --- --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01001110 01010010 01001111 01001111 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N R O O T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0052 004F 004F 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)554852494954 |
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