Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
uproots .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word uprooter.
Examples
-
This so enraged the King that, yielding to the suggestions of the wicked Almidor, he agreed to send him, with treacherous intent, to the court of Egypt, as bearer of a sealed letter, in which document he entreated King Ptolemy to take an early opportunity of destroying one who was a despiser and uprooter of their ancient belief.
The Seven Champions of Christendom William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
-
It actually reminds me of those uprooter droids in Star Wars, in a half lot category of way.
www.awesomeblogs.com 2009
-
-- or from the hideous devilfish of the Gulf, -- gigantic, flat-bodied, black, with immense side-fins ever outspread like the pinions of a bat, -- the terror of luggermen, the uprooter of anchors?
Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877
-
Hopeless of you and of us, of gillies and marquises hopeless, Weary of ethic and logic, of rhetoric yet more weary, There shall he, smit by the charm of a lovely potatoe-uprooter, Study the question of sex in the Bothie of what-did-he-call-it. "'-- p. 18.
The Germ, Issue #1: Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art Germ: Various Authors 1848
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.