Uprooting

Verb

1. Present participle of uproot

Full definition of uprooting

Noun

1. A tearing up.
• 1897, Henry James, What Maisie KnewThis was reproduced by the only sound that broke their supreme embrace when, a month later, the "arrangement," as her periodical uprootings were called, played the part of the horrible forceps.
• 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence... the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart ...