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- verb Present participle of
unroot .
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Examples
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Some of these, owing to non-compliance with the Judge's ruling, may have to be evicted, and their eviction will be what is termed the unrooting of peasants 'houses and the ejectment of overburdened tenants for not paying impossible rents.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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But it does hint at the dangers of a sudden unrooting from entrenched mores.
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He can only wail over the prevalence of evil, assume its foundation to be error, and purpose to abate it by unrooting that
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He can only wail over the prevalence of evil, assume its foundation to be error, and purpose to abate it by unrooting that Ignorance which bears and feeds it.
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi Richard Francis Burton 1855
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And that sentiment would paralyse the Hindoos when entering upon a struggle for unrooting the British from Hindostan.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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I'm not planning on unrooting any time soon but would also like to know how to accomplish this if I forgot the nandroid backup. works like a charm
How Now Brownpau 2009
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"Seeing that their evil scheme succeeded," the announcement continued, "they began unrooting a
FailedMessiah.com 2010
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