adjective
- pulled up or torn out by the roots; uprooted
- displaced from one's home or native place; without a fixed residence or belonging
Usage: figurative
verb
- past tense and past participle of disroot; to pull up or tear out by the roots
Usage: rare; literary
Examples
- The storm disrooted several large oak trees in the park.
- After the war, thousands of families were disrooted and forced to flee their homeland.
- The old tree, disrooted by the hurricane, lay across the road.
- He felt disrooted and lost after moving to a new country.
- The flood disrooted crops throughout the valley.
- Many disrooted refugees sought shelter in neighboring towns.