UPROOTINGS Synonyms

• act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

• an event in which something is displaced without rotation

• the act of uniform movement

• (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

• to move something from its natural environment

• act of removing from office or employment

• action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved

• the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• squeezing out by applying pressure

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

• properties attributable to your ancestry

• the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)

• the movement of persons from one country or locality to another

• a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)

• (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule

• the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding

• the act of removing

• dismissal from office

• a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)

• a violent disturbance

• (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

• disturbance usually in protest