Setting people flying and springing upon the ground with violence, plucking towns

﴿تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمۡ أَعۡجَازُ نَخۡلٖ مُّنقَعِرٖ ﴾
[القَمَر: 20]

Setting people flying and springing upon the ground with violence, plucking towns out and leaving nothing standing as if they were palm- trees torn up by the roots

﴿تنـزع الناس كأنهم أعجاز نخل منقعر﴾ [القَمَر: 20]

Dr Kamal Omar
It uproots human beings as if they (are) stems of date-palm tree that gets uprooted

Dr Laleh Bakhtiar
tearing out humanity as if they had been uprooted palm trees, uprooted

Dr Munir Munshey
The winds wrested people away and knocked them around, as if they were hollowed out trunks of the date trees

Edward Henry Palmer
It reft men away as though they had been palm stumps torn up

Farook Malik
which snatched them off like trunks of uprooted palm-trees

George Sale
It carried men away, as though they had been roots of palm-trees forcibly torn up

Maududi
which tore people away and hurled them as though they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees