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UPROOTER

Dictionary entry overview: What does uprooter mean?

• UPROOTER (noun)
The noun UPROOTER has 1 sense:

1. a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

Familiarity information: UPROOTER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UPROOTER (noun)

Sense 1

uprooter ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ruiner; uprooter; destroyer; waster; undoer

Context examples:

a destroyer of the environment / jealousy was his undoer / uprooters of gravestones

Hypernyms ("uprooter" is a kind of...):

bad person (a person who does harm to others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uprooter"):

annihilator (a total destroyer)

iconoclast; image breaker (a destroyer of images used in religious worship)

diversionist; saboteur; wrecker (someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks)

vandal (someone who willfully destroys or defaces property)

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