To root up; to tear up by the roots; as, to uproot the hills or trees.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Extraction Roget’s Thesaurus §301
N. extraction, extracting &c. # v, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers
V. extract, draw, take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out, wring from, wrench, extort, root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out, eradicate, pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots, averruncate|, unroot, uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge, remove, educe, elicit, evolve, extricate, eliminate, eviscerate, express, squeeze out, press out
Adj. extracted
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And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”
For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
