reroot

Establish new foothold

To reroot is to establish roots again, either literally or figuratively.

A transplanted tree reroots when it takes hold in new soil.

People reroot when they settle into a new place after moving: It took years to reroot after leaving my hometown.

In computing, rerooting changes the root of a tree data structure to a different node.

relocation

resettle

Move to live elsewhere

establish · settle · homestead · diaspora · immigrant · displacement · adaptation · belonging · community · foundation

renewal

regeneration

Biological self-repair process

rebirth · reestablishment · reconstitution · regrowth · healing · recovery · reawakening · rekindling · reinvigorate · refresh

botanical

transplant

Move tissue between bodies

cutting · seedling · soil · nursery · grafting · horticulture · gardening · repotting · rootbound · container

digital

redirect

Send in new direction

path · repository · codebase · configuration · server · domain · migration · database · symlink · alias

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botanical/physical establishment

rerootuproot

Remove from the ground

deracinate · pull up · dislodge · displace · extract

metaphorical resettlement

rerootuproot

Remove from the ground

displace · exile · deracinate · dislodge · unsettle

computing/data structures

rerootunroot

Extract from earth

flatten · destructure

Family

rerooted, rerooting

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