uprooting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of uproot

plural uprootings

1. A tearing up.

   […] the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart […]

   1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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   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.

   1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew