grub up

verb

grub up

verb

1

Dated To pull (something) up by the roots; to uproot.

These are gothic notions of beauty—the ivy is beautiful, but, when it insidiously destroys the trunk from which it receives support, who would not grub it up?1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:

Synonyms: grub out

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