uprooting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of uproot

noun

1. 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.”

   “[…] the vision of all the separate terrors, anguishes, uprootings and rendings apart […]”