Once the waters recede, some of the changes are obvious: uprooted trees, damaged property, wrecked roads.
Under this system, farmers were punished if they were caught cutting trees, so to avoid hassles they often uprooted seedlings as soon as they sprouted.
Russian and then Soviet rule brought literacy, electricity and roads to the region, and uprooted feudalism. But by Mr Bullough’s account, it would be a travesty to call that a civilising mission.
She uprooted her son, then 15, to Germany as well.
The Titans answered him by a shower of great rocks and uprooted trees.
The tree itself has a storied and inspirational history - it was almost uprooted during a typhoon, then it dried out from the subsequent trauma.
According to their ministry of agriculture, nearly 500, 000 olive trees have been bulldozed, burnt down or uprooted in the territories since the second intifada (uprising) began in 2000.
They tried every way possible to reestablish the refugees uprooted by flood in new homes.
My mother, an extraordinary woman of great courage, uprooted herself and her children and moved to the industrial centre of Brazil in search of a better life.
But the fighting has uprooted some three million people.
Many more are missing after rushing waters sparked a deadly landslide and a river burst its Banks; uprooted trees and debris ploughed through the area.
The villagers scramble to replant the uprooted trees, nursing them tenderly back into the ground.
The madman returned on his footsteps to seek anew the lost treasure, with his strength gone, his body bent, and his heart in the dust, like a tree uprooted.
Yet in today's cyberspace where zillions of users thirst for instant international information, graceful gurus have been uprooted by green-hand translators.
The storm uprooted many trees.
Makeshift checkpoints sprang up, with litter bins, bricks, gates and uprooted lamp-posts used to block cars.
It says school helps them recover from the trauma of loss, from the trauma of having been uprooted.
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