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Meaning of grub up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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?”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

grub-stakes grubbed grubbed along grubbed out grubbed up grubbing

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