uprooting

noun

noun

A tearing up.

This 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.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
[…] the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart […]1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence:

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