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Meaning of grub up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

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

dated

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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