grub up

verb

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

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grub out
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Meanings

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

present singular third person grubs up · participle present grubbing up · participle past grubbed up · past grubbed up

  1. datedTo 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

Synonyms & antonyms

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

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grub out

More synonyms by meaning

verbdig up

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grub out
Broader
excavatedig upturn up
Also see
grub outuproot

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

grub up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grub%20up

MLA

“grub up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grub%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grub up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grub%20up.

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