disroot
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Etymology edit
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disroot (third-person singular simple present disroots, present participle disrooting, simple past and past participle disrooted)
- (transitive, archaic) To uproot (tear up from the roots).
- 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature:
- A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations.
Translations edit
uproot — see uproot
References edit
- “disroot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.