grub up

English

Verb

grub up (third-person singular simple present grubs up, present participle grubbing up, simple past and past participle grubbed up)

1. (dated) To pull (something) up by the roots; to uproot.
   • 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men‎^[1]:

     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?

Synonyms

• grub out