uprooting
/əpɹˈutɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tearing up.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[…] the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart […]"