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n. - A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to.

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Usage examples (4)
  • Verb (used with object) : The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles. ,The industrial revolution uprooted large segments of the rural population....
  • It actually reminds me of those uprooter droids in Star Wars, in a half lot category of way.
  • -- 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...
  • The uprooter of Greece's domain,
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